Dinner in America [2020]: ‘Fantasia’ Review – An anarchic and unusual rom-com with a ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ hangover
Dinner in America Movie Review: If you haven’t seen ‘Napoleon Dynamite‘, you wouldn’t be aware of its cult following. The…
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Dinner in America Movie Review: If you haven’t seen ‘Napoleon Dynamite‘, you wouldn’t be aware of its cult following. The…
Jay Baruchel’s ‘Random Acts of Violence‘ has a lot on its mind. It wishes to single-handedly reinvent the slasher genre…
Lapsis Movie Review: The more time you spend in Noah Hutton’s carefully constructed world, the more interesting it becomes. There’s…
In Manifesto of Surrealism, André Breton defined cinema as ‘Three cheers for darkened rooms!’ There is a dreamlike quality to cinema watching experience itself. When an adventurer enters the darkened room and encounters a series of flickering images that projects dazzling visions of life, surrounded by complete strangers, the experience of cinema can be equated with that of dream. What moviegoers seek from cinema is the experience of otherness. Movie watching is and will always be a mystical ritual that teeters on the edge of reality. This strange analogy between film viewing and dream state is the foundation of surrealist cinema.
I feel that Uli Edel’s The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) and Koji Wakamatsu’s United Red Army (Jitsuroku Rengo Sekigun: Asama…
Why did Walter White become a drug dealer? The sincere, incorruptible man he was, was it solely cancer that made…
Reactions on Kazuo Hara and the unflinching documentaries he makes can be widely divisive. Some may call him a genius,…
Daddy Longlegs Review: I have always had this hunch how Safdie brothers seem like the descendants of John Cassavetes. Just…
Boy and girl grow up together. Boy and girl kiss. Boy and girl have sex. Boy and girl break up….