Films that feature dialogue as the main element can be a lot more complex. Because if a film is faultily directed, then it can move quite slowly and put the audience into a deep slumber. But thankfully, the filmmakers behind the New Zealand independent film ‘Sunday’ hit the jackpot and made a beautifully crafted relationship […]
Without is highly captivating which makes it stand out the most. It is a small film, with few characters and locations. Even then, it is a film that grabbed my interest from the start. This can be attributed to the casting. Mark Jackson, the director, tells this very quiet story with numerous angles and shots
The Hollywood film industry and its audience has faced challenges resurrecting film noir classics produced from the 1940’s, Steve Anderson’s 2023 release “The White Orchird” aims to overcome those obstacles. During the last week of September, a new movie had its world premiere in Santa Barbara, California called “The White Orchid”, and at the same
When Hackers came out back in ‘95, Angelina Jolie was still known as Jon Voight’s daughter, Matthew Lillard had not begun SLC Punk (or the unfortunate row of Freddie Prinze Jr. films that came after), and Jonny Lee Miller was still a year away from Trainspotting. Wait, did this film really come out two decades
As a hardcore horror fan, I completely missed Sleepy Hollow’s (Tim Burton) 20-year anniversary, one of my favorite movies. Now that I start writing, it makes me question: why, after all these years, do I still love it so much? And as it starts to roll, the first thing that jumps out at me is
John Travolta gloomy heads his way through while “lovely recreating” the 1940s in ne crime documentary based on the “lonely heart” killers and is bizarrely directed by Travolta himself, playing the ‘grandson’ of one of the detectives on the case. The married couple who murdered and robbed women who placed ad’s in newspapers and then
I am the worst person to judge a book or a film by its cover. More often than not, I have a rough idea of what the film is all about, whether I like it or not. I have a ton of films that I have to review, and most of the time I end
It seems accurate to argue that each Wong Kar-Wai movie is the most eclectic piece in the entirety of cinema history. Therefore, describing My Blueberry Nights as a Wong Kar Wai film is enough of a description by itself. On the other hand, without a doubt, My Blueberry Nights is, by a wide margin, the
Watching George Clooney and Brad Pitt offer each other knowing glances and then engage in moderately entertaining yet pointed banter is one of the greatest pleasures in cinematography. While the two have starred alongside each other in multiple films, the chemistry stuff mainly happens in “Ocean’s” films directed by Steven Soderbergh. (Among other co-starring projects,
