A Simple Favor [2018] Review: A Cocktail with Flavor
Paul Feig, the man best known for comedies has attempted to make a suspense thriller with A Simple Favor. After…
Leave No Trace [2018] Review – A Subtly Powerful Tale of Life on the Fringes
Debra Granik is one of the deeply passionate American independent film-makers working today. She has only made three feature films…
50 Years Later: Flesh [1968]
Flesh set the precedent for independent cinema: its rawness, its street smarts, its low-budget aesthetic, its technical roughness, its intimate beauty, and of course its unabashed presentation of the human body, one of the many taboos that the counterculture were bringing to the foreground.
Eighth Grade [2018] – A Captivating and Heartfelt Portrait of Modern Teenage Life
American comedian & musician Bo Burnham’s feature-film debut Eighth Grade opens with a grainy camera image of a young…
Teen Aur Aadha [2018]: ‘PIFF’ Review — Of Stories Untold And Secrets Unguarded
Teen Aur Aadha (Three and A Half) is a film that reinvents traditional narrative structures by presenting three tales from…
Village of the Damned [1960] Review: Beware The Stare That Bewitches!
A simple premise executed in a very sophisticated fashion, Village of the Damned is a smartly scripted & aptly narrated…
Damsel [2018] Review – A Thoughtful, Absurdist Adventure Drama Set in the Mythic West
Sibling film-makers David and Nathan Zellner makes oft-kilter cinema, charged with absurdist humor and modified archetypes, that aren’t easily categorizable….
The 10 Best Films from TIFF 2018
TIFF is a world-class mecca for introducing an international audience to emerging and established filmmakers. It is a haven for…