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Toronto International Film Festival Review – South Korean Oscar Submission ‘Concrete Utopia’ is an Unsettling Exploration of Humanity Cornered

It’s hard to imagine losing everything, and to think about how a person’s behavior might shift when their circumstances are remarkably different. A change like that can happen in an instant without any warning, not that having time to prepare would definitely make it easier. The more complicated question is what happens when many people…

‘Predators’: a Superb Netflix Series About Animals Struggling for Survival

Not to be confused with Nimród Antal’s 2010 sci-fi thriller with the same name, Predators is a superbly presented nature documentary that focuses on the challenges faced by animal populations on three continents. Engagingly narrated by actor Tom Hardy, five episodes of the series recently debuted on Netflix, which co-produced it with Sky Productions. The…

‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’: A Shrunken Olive in Need of Ouzo

As its title implies, this is yet another tale of the adventures and misadventures of the Portakalos family, an extended clan of Greek immigrants based in Chicago. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3″ is the third film in the franchise directed by Nia Vardalos, who also wrote the script, which enabled her to star in…

Toronto International Film Festival Review – ‘Seagrass’ is a Complex Interrogation of Heritage, Identity, and Relationships

A person’s identity is a complex thing, and people are far too prone to making baseless assumptions about who someone is and what they’ve been through over the course of their life. A new environment or being in the same place as a new person or group of people can bring to the surface previously…

Review: Paranormal Horror Meets it’s Death in “The Nun II”

No one was amazed that the success of The Conjuring in 2013 would spawn sequels. Maybe it was a little shocking that it birthed a whole cinematic universe. But after sequel upon sequel of spin-off spirit fair, one might think The Nun II is the 25th entry by now. While the follow-up to the much…

Remembering Every Night, A Neighbourhood Becomes The Leading Character Seen Through The Flâneuse Perspective

KimStim is distributing in North America Yui Kiyohara’s Remembering Every Night, presented at the 73rd Berlinale, that was designated one of five highlights from New Directors/New Films 2023. The film was produced and supported by Japan’s Pia Film Festival and its PFF Scholarship for young filmmakers, and will open on September 15th in New York Film…

Venice Film Festival: El Conde, A Sumptuous Vision And Witty Parable About The Immortality Of Evil

At the 80th Venice Film Festival Pablo Larraín presents a military Nosferatu, through a compelling black-and-white fantasy that blends horror, history and politics. We are thusly catapulted into the idea that “History is never fair. online pharmacy buy symbicort with best prices today in the USA ” The film is an immersion into an abstract…

The Cannes Film Festival Opener “Jeanne du Barry” : A Period Drama That Instills Authenticity and Humanity In The Historical Figure That Inspired It

The Franco-Algerian actress and filmmaker Maïwenn, brings to the silver screen — as director and leading actress — the story of Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry, the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. Jeanne du Barry was presented Out of Competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and has portentously completed the picture…

Review: Should you get moving with “Moving”

If I’ve said it one, I’ve said it a million times– Korean cinema and TV has been an important voice in the entertainment industry for a long time, but over the past 5 years, it’s the source of some of the best material around. In the modern era, a road was paved in the film…

Film Review – ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ is a Fun Celebration of Judaism and Being a Teenager with Surprising Substance

A Bar or Bat Mitzvah is a religious event that signifies the transition to becoming an adult for Jewish teenagers, but the emphasis in many cases is put on how big a party a kid might have. The notion of officially being considered an adult at age twelve or thirteen is a strange one given…

Babak Jalali’s ‘Fremont’: An Extraordinary Film About Love and Solitude

Who would have thought that a black-and-white film about an Afghani refugee woman working in a Chinese fortune-cookie bakery could be so engaging? Fremont is an extraordinary film by an extraordinary director who has brought together an extraordinary ensemble of characters. Keep your eye on Babak Jalali, auteur-in-the-making. Like Yasujiro Ozu and Ingmar Bergman before…