Official Competition (2021): Who makes the movies? It’s a never-ending discussion that has been proposed and debated repeatedly over the years. The auteur theory introduced a school of thought where a singular…
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Marlowe: Plot Summary & Ending Explained: Some movie characters become emblematic of the genre itself. Philip Marlowe, the detective created by Raymond Chandler, had become the unofficial face of the noir genre…
For his English language debut, Spanish genre master, Alejandro Amenábar, made a gorgeous Gothic horror film which is a Spaniard’s creation and not a nineteenth-century writer’s and is itself a marvel. An…
Pacifiction (2022) ‘PIFF’ Review: According to a 2021 research carried out by a French news website in collaboration with a renowned British firm, experts declassified French military documents, calculations, and testimonies to…
Alcarràs (2022) ‘Mubi’ Review: Three tiny cousins play inside a turquoise car sitting at the edge of a peach orchard. They shoot finger pistols at imagined aliens in the distance, only to…
The Coronavirus pandemic disrupted lives, no matter which part of the world we lived in. It made us relook at our way of living, habits, and belief systems. Patxi Maezcua’s ‘Infiesto (2023)’…
