Sunset Boulevard (1950): Ghosts From An Archaic Cinema
Exercising the noir genre to build an interesting reflection supported by the differences between silent and sound cinema, the film…
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![Spring on Zarechnaya Street [1956] Review – An Enjoyable Romantic Melodrama of Thaw-Era Cinema](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Spring-on-Zarechnaya-Street-1956-768x553.jpg)
Spring on Zarechnaya Street [1956] Review – An Enjoyable Romantic Melodrama of Thaw-Era Cinema
The Khrushchev Thaw represents the period in Soviet Union following the death of Joseph Stalin (March 1953) that allowed for…
The 6 Essential Bruce Lee Movies
Essential Bruce Lee Movies: When one thinks of Asian cinema, the glitz and glamour of Bollywood, the samurai films from…
‘Ad Astra’ is a sci-fi odyssey about Inter-Galactic Daddy Issues
“Ad Astra” sees James Gray return to traversing emotional barriers between a father and his son after his under-loved “The…
Nomadland (2020): A Faultless, Sublime Epic That May Change Your Life
Watching Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland (2020) (streaming on Hulu), I was reminded of a Virginia Woolf line- “Arrange whatever pieces come…
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The Commissar [1967] Review – A Startlingly Envisioned Drama on the Cruelties of War
Aleksandr Askoldov’s first and last film The Commissar (1967) is a great film on its own right. However, the story…
The Wanting Mare (2021) Review: A Penetrating Visual Fantasy
The Wanting Mare opens with a marvelous atmospheric view of a city, purportedly bobbing through a murky ocean, its lights…
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Wonder Woman 1984 [2020] Review: Falls way short of its predecessor
Wonder Woman breathed life into a stuttering DCEU film series that was left reeling following the debacle of Batman vs…
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The Petrified Forest [1936] Review – The Get-Together of Kindred Souls
One of the earliest movie crazes of the 1930s was a rash of gangster films. Most gangster films (particularly the…