Batman in Cinema: Extremely Black yet Incredibly Colorful
Writing about Batman is a task of great difficulty. You have a plethora of emotions battling with a tremendous amount…
Pompei (Pompéi) [2019]: ‘TIFF’ Review – A Visual-Stunning yet Empty Allegory on Loneliness and Escapism
It is never specified where and when John Shank and Anna Falguères’ ‘Pompei (Pompéi)‘ takes place in. Which is why…
Kabir Singh Netflix [2019] Review – When Super-Man met Snow White in ToxiCity.
Kabir Singh is now streaming on Netflix “I like the way you breathe,” he says, in reply to the object…
How the Burden of Dreams can take man deep into the Heart of Darkness
There’s a fascinating moment towards the end of Les Blank’s sublime 1982 documentary “Burden of Dreams” where Werner Herzog begins…
Metacritic needs to replace Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes amalgamates as many reviews of a film it can muster, ascribing one of either rating (fresh or rotten). Metacritic is literally 50 times better than Rotten Tomatoes, as it has a numerical rating from 0 to 100.
Hana-Bi [1997] Review – The Meditative Trip of a Beleaguered Detective
Takeshi Kitano’s Golden Lion winner Hana-Bi (‘Fireworks’, 1997) is in many ways the perfect amalgamation of the film-maker’s humanist expression…
The Tunnel [2011] Review: Undone By Its Weak Ending
A competently crafted found-footage horror narrated in faux-documentary style, The Tunnel utilizes its narrow spaces, dark alleys & underground setting…
Kill Me If You Dare Netflix [2019] Review: A rom-com that closely follows the blueprint
Titled on Netflix as ‘Kill Me If You Dare’, Öldür Beni Sevgilim is a Turkish language film. Directed by Senol…