Time has passed, and the world has changed. Among the new, there remains a confusing fascination with the old; and when these two collide, a clash of ideals exists. Director John Michael…
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Finch (2021) Apple TV+ Review: 10 years into the future, the ozone layer is completely gone, the world has become a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and the eponymous character of Finch is a robotics…
“The Dead Don’t Die is a peculiarly disappointing attempt at deadpan.” A horror comedy that lacks the latter with a bare-boned attempt at the former, The Dead Don’t Die is a peculiarly…
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri [2017]: An Effective & Darkly Comic Outburst of Righteous Anger Irish playwright and film-maker Martin McDonagh has got a gift for writing screenplays interlaced with dark humor.…
Heaven knows what is the film adaptation of the unpublished memoir “Mad Love in New York City” written by the film’s female lead Arielle Holmes. Before I even begin writing about the film, I have to mention the fascinating story about how the whole idea of making Heaven Knows What happened. Arielle Holmes was a homeless girl, who begged, stole, shoplifted for a living when she was spotted by the director duo Ben and Joshua Safdie and thus they found out about her life and her mad love story consisting of two heroin junkies. The Safdie Brothers asked her to write her story and offered her to pay for every page she would write and that’s how ‘Heaven Knows What’ finally happened.
