Young people often look at their grandparents and are fascinated – if not also appalled and frustrated – with how they interact with the world. That’s because their life experiences are considerably less sizable and sophisticated, whereas people in their sixties, seventies, or eighties have been through much more. Society has also changed in a…
Sometimes a song works perfectly to encapsulate a moment or an entire movie. Among this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Original Song is the fourteenth mention for Diane Warren, who has yet to win a competitive Oscar, for “Applause,” from a small movie called Tell It Like a Woman that made its premiere at the…
Check out more of our video reviews and interviews on our YouTube channel. Video Review Above the Line vs Below the Line Episode 29 Film Critic : Abe Friedtanzer Abe Friedtanzer is a film and TV enthusiast who spent most of the past fifteen years in New York City. He has been the editor of…
Nothing beats eating with a person you like. This feeling is conveyed by Yûji Nakae in his The Zen Diary, part of the ACA Cinema Project Series. The filmmaker from Okinawa adapts for the silver screen the 1978 nonfiction book by the late author Tsutomu Mizukami. The picture is a gastronomically spiritual journey through the…
It’s been forty-five years since Liam Neeson’s first screen credit, and he’s done quite a lot in that time. An Oscar nomination fifteen years later for Schindler’s List was arguably the high point of his career, which shifted from prestigious character pieces to brainless action flicks that have been released in recent years with startling…
Films about female boxing have been on the rise, from Hollywood’s most famous Million Dollar Baby, to Bollywood’s Mary Kom. Even Netflix has covered the topic with docuseries such as Untold: Deal with the Devil. Now comes the turn of Japan with Small, Slow but Steady (Keiko, me wo sumasete). The film directed by Shô…
After the extraordinary success of critics and audiences, Magic Mike’s Last Dance unleashes the third installment of the Magic Mike franchise. The creative team, helmed by director Steven Soderbergh, returns with Channing Tatum reprising the role of Mike Lane. online pharmacy buy metformin with best prices today in the USA The story penned by Reid…
Most people have read the wise or strange messages of a Chinese fortune cookie, and perhaps wonder who actually wrote it. Whatever the message says it seems to leave you with a good feeling after the meal. The extraordinary film “Fremont”, a black and white gem at Sundance Film Festival 2023, gives you that sense…
Ever since the film “Crazy Rich Asians” was a smash hit, the Asian film community has blossomed. New talents have established themselves in the Hollywood industry for the last few years, and now three Asian cast members of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” are nominated for the 2023 Academy Awards. So it’s appropriate to see…
M. Night Shyamalan adapts for the silver screen the horror novel The Cabin at the End of the World by American writer Paul Tremblay. The Indian-American filmmaker, master of the contemporary supernatural, provides his own take on the original story through his Knock At The Cabin. Andrew (Ben Aldridge), Eric (Jonathan Groff) and their adopted…
It’s 1993, An audacious and free-spirited Inez (Teyana Taylor) has recently been released from Rikers Island. A year later, she’s living in a Brooklyn homeless shelter and struggling to get by but is determined to stay out of trouble. One day, Inez spots Terry (Aaron Kingsley Adetola), a six year old boy she’d left behind….
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