The horror film written and directed by Yaguchi Shinobu presents the filmmaker in a new light. The Japanese director, specialised in feel-good “zero to hero” films, switches to an eerie, creepy and gruesome type of storytelling. Dollhouse tells the story of Yoshie (Nagasawa Masami) and Tadahiko (Seto Koji), who are married and have a 5-year-old…
The word Serendipity stands for “the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident,” it’s basically a blessing in disguise. The film directed by Akiko Ohku seems to explore the darker aspect of life’s fortuitous events. The destinies of the characters involved in the story, rather than finding something good accidentally, traverse unexpected sorrows and someway…
The prodigious documentary directed by Amélie Ravalec focuses on a time of profound social change in the Land of the Rising Sun: the Sixties. Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers portrays how the turbulent times of the postwar era inspired an artistic explosion across the Nipponic nation, with the emergence of a revolutionary scene of avant-garde artists who…
Director R.T. Thorne, sets his 40 Acres in a post-apocalyptic-near-future. In this world a mysterious plague has wiped out all animal life on Earth, causing an unprecedented global famine for a few surviving human beings, who have turned to cannibalism as their only means of survival. In this funereal scenario, a family lives isolated on…
Critic : Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Works as film critic and journalist who covers stories about culture and sustainability. With a degree in Political Sciences, a Master’s in Screenwriting & Film Production, and studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Chiara has been working in the press since 2003. Italian by blood, British by…
This biographical film, chronicles the artistry of photographer Jule Campell. Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell’s Swimsuit Issue, directed by her daughter-in-law Jill Campbell, retraces the protagonist’s 32-year reign as editor of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue, as it flourished into a media empire, paving the way for feminism’s evolution. The starting point of the documentary is…
Critic : Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Works as film critic and journalist who covers stories about culture and sustainability. With a degree in Political Sciences, a Master’s in Screenwriting & Film Production, and studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Chiara has been working in the press since 2003. Italian by blood, British by…
The fifth film in the John Wick franchise newly unites Ana de Armas with Keanu Reeves, since the two had worked in the 2015 thriller Knock Knock and the 2016 drama Exposed. After a decade, we see them together again in Ballerina, that serves as a spin-off set between the events of John Wick: Chapter…
Those who aren’t familiar with Italy’s contemporary history and influential political leaders of the Sixties and Seventies, will have the chance to learn about the statesman Enrico Berlinguer with the film The Great Ambition (La Grande Ambizione), directed by Andrea Segre. The movie, that was first presented at the 2024 Rome Film Festival, is part…
The documentary directed Andrew Dominik, captures on film the 2023 performance by Bono at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, during his one-man stage show Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief… This stage performance, in turn, was made to promote his 2022 memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. Dominik’s…
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