@Courtesy of Universal Pictures After the stunning and entirely deserved success of Wicked in 2024 (474 million dollars earned ad the US boxoffice, 755 worldwide, 10 nominations at the Academy Awards included Best Movie, Best Actress and Best Actress in a Supporting Role) this year’s sequel Wicked: For Good was by any means one of…
@Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Phillip Vandarploeug is a husky American expat residing in a Tokyo apartment that qualifies as small, even by local standards. He ekes out a subsistence living working the absolute lowest acting jobs on the dramatic food chain. If anyone understands life’s disappointments, it would be him. Consequently, he quickly displays the…
@Courtesy of Netflix Thanks to the reforms of the Meiji Restoration, being a ronin (a masterless samurai, like Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo) no longer looked so bad to old school warriors following the Bushido code. Even ronin had a level of status the new government denied the samurai, now called Shizoku. They lost their honor…
The Latin saying ‘gutta cavat lapidem’ (a drop of water digs through the rock) clearly reflects the spirit of the documentary directed by Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni. Cutting Through Rocks portrays the feminist fight of a woman in a patriarchal land. Sara Shahverdi is a former midwife, she is divorced, rides her motorcycle, dresses…
@Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Check out more of our YouTube Channel. Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early…
@Courtesy of MUBI Among the several masterpieces that Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes realized together, A Woman Under the Influence (1974) set the bar about portraying the psychological and emotional difficulties of a woman confined in often suffocating social roles of wife, mother or housewife. The truth and intensity which that movie was able to…
@Courtesy of Black Bear The most compelling, knockout boxing performances – both in the ring and on the screen – are potent game-changers that will long be remembered. That sentiment is certainly true for the career of former professional boxer, Christy Martin. It’s also the case for the new gritty, cathartic biopic about her life,…
©Courtesy of GKIDS Continuously reliving the same events in a seemingly endless time loop can be an initially daunting task. But once again delving into the visually and emotionally in-depth story of the new sci-fi anime film, All You Need Is Kill, is an exciting adventure. The feature is based on the 2004 best-selling light…
One of New York’s most beloved and accessible festivals, SummerStage, a free outdoor performing arts festival, has existed since nearly 40 years ago, Stevie Wonder, Janelle Monáe, Herbie Hancock, The Roots, Jay-Z, and Nas were among the legendary performers, with more than 7 million attendance that people from New York City and around the world,…
@Courtesy of Focus Features After the quite overrated Poor Things and the interesting but unbalanced Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos is back with his best movie since The Favourite. And this happened because the director worked on a screenplay which is quite basic but nonetheless effective, allowing him to develop his own visual taste and…
©Courtesy of Janus Films Biopics thrive on their ability to see the ordinary in people as magical. The uniquely experimental new period docudrama, Peter Hujar’s Day, does just that by presenting the elegant titular character through melancholic subtext. Ira Sachs both wrote and directed the movie about the late cultural photographer. The filmmaker turned a…
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