Written and directed by AJ Edwards, ‘First Love (2022)’ is a romantic drama, now streaming on Hulu. Starring Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Hero Fiennes Tiffin (‘After’ Film series), Sydney Park, Jeffrey Donovan…
Tag: Coming-of-age
Set in Italy, ‘Autumn Beat’ is a coming-of-age film directed by Antonio Dikele Distefano. Written by him along with Massimo Vavassori, the script navigates a complicated relationship between two Milan-born black brothers.…
There is an A-side and there is a B-side to the current era of Pixar Films. That is just how the company has configured itself over the past decade. The A-side pictures…
Kohei Oguri’s Muddy River (Doro no kawa, 1981) is a wonderfully evocative portrait of childhood which in parts reminded me of Victor Erice’s The Spirit of Beehive (1973) and Rene Clement’s Forbidden…
A tenderly crafted, wonderfully narrated & sumptuously animated fairy quest from the greatest animation studio on the planet, Onward marks another forward step for Pixar and is another winning entry in their…
As fun, lively & gleeful as any unsupervised house party, Booksmart is a passionately crafted, gleefully narrated & wonderfully acted coming-of-age comedy that commences Olivia Wilde’s filmmaking journey on a promising note,…
