Prisoners is a carefully-paced, intelligently-crafted crime thriller, with landscapes (created by the wonderful Roger Deakins) that bleed with nihilistic bleakness, imparting a haunting sense of eeriness throughout. What makes Prisoners a notch-above competent thrillers is its ending – without dialogue or further exposition, the metaphors speak for themselves, as they often do, in art, and in life.
The Gone Game Season 2 (2022) Review: When The Gone Game released its first season in 2020, we were in the middle of a nationwide lockdown. This New Normal – the wearing…
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M (1931) still gives me the creeps, not only because it’s scary but it made me think about topics that many people would call “icky”. The film is a timeless classic which…
Aranyak (Season 1) Review: The sleepy town of Shinorah, Himachal Pradesh has a chequered past of a spate of serial killings which had occurred years ago. The local villagers with a mix…
“It’s a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares anymore; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.” Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road SE7EN (1995) is…
Yianni John Drakos’ “15 Killings” begins with Norris (Steve Bongeorno) visiting a bar and striking a conversion with a teenage boy. Even before the two characters interact and introduce themselves, the audience…