The brooding protagonist, alone at the bar. There are few better ways to show a…
Tag: Addiction
In the Netflix original series, Feel Good (Season 1), Canadian-born stand-up comedian Mae Martin (co-written…
British filmmaker/screenwriter Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir” is a semi-autobiographical sketch of her own life. Going back…
The characters in Steve McQueen’s “Shame” (99 minutes) with their little showcase of emotions are constrained inside differently shaped glass structures like fish in the aquariums. It is more about a man’s self-destruction in a controlled and compulsive environment than being a mere psychobabble on sex addiction.
Mississippi Grind can better be described as a character study of two people who have nothing in common except for their passion for ‘gambling’. Even if you are not a sucker for gambling based films, “Mississippi Grind” is immensely likable and irresistible, with a few good take away moments imbibed in it.
