Blue My Mind [2018] – A Familiar yet Impressive Coming-of-Age Fable The female perspective on growing-up and adolescence has long been presented in a rawer (non-romantic) and surrealistic manner. Monstrous, supernatural transformation…
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In yet another recent firing of a high-profile member of the entertainment industry, James Gunn has been booted by Disney as director for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. But this firing seems to be the most egregious, one ravelled up in so many layers, it all feels so precisely orchestrated.
Aaron Schimberg’s Chained For Life derives its title from the 1952 exploitation film by the same name. While the later was a true B-movie with real-life siamese-twins in the lead (a cute…
Microhabitat [2018] – A Lively Character Study with an Undercurrent of Deep Melancholy Miso (Esom) from Jeon Go-woon’s impressive debut feature Microhabitat (‘So-gong-nyeo’, 2018) is a legitimate female slacker, who even reconstructs…
The third & final instalment in John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy (preceded by The Thing & Prince of Darkness), In the Mouth of Madness blurs the lines between reality & fiction to deliver…
Although this isn’t quite one of Lumet’s best (and certainly far from being his worse), it does feel like his most prescient, despite its formulaic nature, lack of character or thematic depth, and attention spent to simply being a fun heist thriller.
Little Forest [2018] – An Ode to Life’s Simple Pleasures Food and cooking aren’t considered as a form of art, in relation to the aesthetic and emotional experience it imparts upon viewers.…
People’s Republic of Desire [2018] – A Distressing Look at China’s Booming Live Streaming Industry We might have often heard this adage: “Our life is but a stream that flows by so…