About Endlessness [2021] Review: Vignettes, mundane and majestic, make a masterpiece
“I saw a woman, who thought no one was waiting for her,” announces the narrator of ‘About Endlessness.’ This, at…
Oxygen [2021] Netflix Review – Taut single-location thriller serves as an allegory for socially-distanced isolation
French director Alexandre Aja returns to native-language filmmaking after more than two decades. His breakout genre hit ‘High Tension‘ landed…
Beginning [2020]: ‘MUBI’ Review – We Live In a Patriarchy, Let’s Begin There
Cannes 2020 selected Déa Kulumbegashvili’s ‘Beginning’ (Dastaskisi) was supposed to play in competition along with Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch.’ While the former had a drip-drip-drip release since September, I assume nobody but Anderson has seen the latter. Cannes, for its glory, selected Steve McQueen’s ‘Mangrove’ and ‘Lovers Rock’ to play in the competition. They picked Nir Bergman’s ‘Here We Are’ and Francis Lee’s ‘Ammonite,’ too. My money, however, would have been on ‘Beginning’ to…
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Nomadland
Early on in Nomadland, Fern tells someone, “I am not homeless…..I am houseless. Not the same thing.” Exploring life on…
Quiz Show [1994] Review – A Thought-provoking Look at the Shallowness and Chicanery of Show Business
Time and again Hollywood has explored the theme of television’s superficiality and deception. In Sidney Lumet’s Network (1976), an agitated…
Cinema Against War
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the war room.” What is a war? Is it an extremely lengthy…
Nayattu [2021] Netflix Review: A Taut Thriller of Contradictory Politics
Nayattu (2021) is by far the trickiest Political film I’ve come across as I’m trying to measure my response to…
Malmkrog [2020]: ‘MUBI’ Review – The Talking Cure for Elites
Malmkrog [2020] ‘MUBI’ Review: The Romanian New Wave began in the mid-noughties. Cristi Puiu is, in fact, the pioneer of…








