Closing Time [2018]: ‘Locarno’ Review
Closing Time opens a time portal to the lyrical mundanity of quotidian characters in the stillness of the night. Highly…
Hereditary Review [2018]: Horror In All Its Twisted Glory
There are no creaking houses, no unnecessary exposition and certainly, no jump scares. Ari Aster, in his directorial debut, has…
A Spike Lee Joint: BlacKkKlansman [2018]
BlacKkKlansman takes an extraordinary true tale and gives it even more of an extraordinary oomph to make it a wildly entertaining and wholly engaging piece of storytelling – its success at providing such thrills makes up for its socio-political shortcomings.
Nostalghia Review [1983]: A Spiritual Space Loosely Suspended In Time
It has often been said that aging is the only trade possible for gaining sentience. In my yester-years, I remember…
Upgrade Review [2018]: An Alarming Glimpse of the Near-Future
A biting critique of our increasing dependency on technology & automation and how the absence of human intervention isn’t just…
The Rider Review [2018]: An Intimate and Heartbreaking ride
The Rider, written and directed by Chloé Zhao, is an astonishing work of art, blending real-life people with a fictional…
Fortuna [2018]: ‘Locarno’ Review
Who is to decide when it comes to faith? Who makes the final decision when a body aches; both from…
Tehran Taboo Review [2018]: A Gripping Portrait of Life in Contemporary Iran
Exposing the hypocrisy & double standards of men, especially when it comes to matters of sex, Tehran Taboo captures how…