©New Line Cinema Mirrors are superficially meant to reflect how people are physically presented to the world. However, they ultimately serve as a way for the outside world to put those steered by their emotions, including vanity, on display to be judged by others, especially those they don’t intimately know. Up-and-coming genre auteur, Ishana Night…
The death of a pet is a monumental event that can be extremely shattering but isn’t perceived and respected by society in the same way as the loss of a family member. How deep and personal it feels depends entirely on the person and the relationship they had with that pet, and grief can open…
@Photo by Lucasfilm Ltd./Lucasfilm Ltd. – © 2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Since Lucasfilm was sold to Disney in October 2012, the target audience for the Star Wars movies and future TV series changed quite drastically, especially in how the new titles would address the viewers’ tastes. Except for a few productions like…
I Told You So (Te l’avevo detto) is Ginevra Elkann’s second feature film, that premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and was presented at 2023 Rome Film Festival. It is currently part of the line-up of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, in New York City. The film is set in Rome during an anomalous…
The relationship between two people is an intimate thing that can’t be completely understood by those outside of it. When a relationship ends, for whatever reason, it will be difficult to convey just what exactly has been lost to anyone else. When one person dies, however, it can be exponentially more painful since it’s not…
©Courtesy of Longride/Level 33 Entertainment England’s Lake District has a rich literary history, often involving bunny rabbits. Richard Adams’ Watership Down was set in the area, but for Kenzaburo Oshima’s wife Akiko, the Beatrix Potter connection was much more important. Her love of Peter Cottontail attracted her to Lake Windermere in her youthful student days….
“I come home, in the mornin’ light My mother says, ‘When you gonna live your life right?’ Oh momma dear, we’re not the fortunate ones And girls, they wanna have fun Oh girls just wanna have fun…” This is the first verse of the song that was made legendary by a one-of-a-kind artist, iconic performer,…
Director Roberta Torre, inscribes on reel her love letter towards the esteemed Italian actress Monica Vitti. However, In The Mirror is not a biopic, it’s much better. It portrays how the power of cinema may be therapeutic to someone who is struggling with a neurological disorder. Monica (Alba Rohrwacher) suffers from the Korsakoff syndrome that…
Photo courtesy and © Sony Pictures Four years ago, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reunited for their third go-round as Lt. Mike Lowery and Lt. Marcus Burnett, the Miami police detectives first introduced back in Michael Bay’s 1995 buddy comedy classic, Bad Boys. Due to COVID shutting down movie theaters, that 2020 three-quel, Bad Boys…
Check out more of Serena’s video review at the Cannes Film Festival Serena Davanzo, a Pennsylvania native, graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a BA in Journalism and a BA in Theatre in December 2022. She currently works full time as a weekend anchor/producer and MMJ’s weekdays. She aspires to be an entertainment based…
Cesare Pavese was one of Italy’s most influential writers of the 20th century. One of his short stories La bella estate, published in 1949, was part of a book of novellas that won the author the Strega Prize, the most prestigious Italian literary award, in 1950. Decades later the Italian screenwriter-director Laura Luchetti adapted this…
If you like our contents, please subscribe our news letter!
If you like our contents, please subscribe our news letter!
