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Film Review: Jump on the Emotional Rollercoaster That is, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert–better known as The Daniels or just Daniels when their credited work appears made a bit of a splash in the film world when their 2016 feature length debut, Swiss Army Man, hit cinemas. Most people remember or even only heard about Swiss Army Man as the movie where Daniel Radcliffe…

SXSW Film Festival Review – ‘Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down’ is a Powerful Testament to a Survivor

There are few lawmakers who have been targeted for death and survived. Among the most inspiring stories is that of Gabby Giffords, a congressman from Arizona who was shot in the head during a “Congress on Your Corner” event she was hosting in 2011. Since undergoing her incredible recovery, Giffords has made preventing future gun…

SXSW Review: The Kids in the Hall- Comedy Punks

My parents raised me on a steady helping of genius material. When it came to comedy, I was introduced to the likes of Monty Python and SCTV at a very young age. So, when The Kids in the Hall popped up on my TV screen in the late 80s/early 90s not only was I all…

SXSW Film Festival Review: Folk Singer Suzanne Vega Emotionally Embodies Novelist Carson McCuller in ‘Lover, Beloved’

Innovative folk singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega has long been determined to showcase the importance of women breaking traditional boundaries and championing their independence. So she decided to adapt her acclaimed one-woman stage show about the life of celebrated 20th-century American novelist Carson McCullers for the big screen with the new emotionally gripping film, Lover, Beloved. The…

Babi Yar. Context : First Look MOMI 2022 : A ‘Work of Fury’ About War and Genocide

Contemplating a long elegy he wanted to write on the Holocaust, the Jewish American poet Hyam Plutzik wrote in 1960: “It is hard enough to write a requiem for one man, but six million? online pharmacy with best prices today in the USA … Grief ends beyond one or two or three; beyond that there…

SXSW Film Festival Review – ‘The Cow’ Brings Audiences on a Weird and Winding Journey

Movie characters always seem to think that it’s a good idea to head into the middle of the woods late at night. No one expects that will lead to their eventual death at the hands of a deranged serial killer or their sacrifice to the devil, to name a few possibilities, but it still doesn’t…

Murina / FIRST LOOK 2022, MOMI : A Stunning Debut Film Indicts Toxic Masculinity

The premise of this film is not out of the ordinary: it’s yet another saga about a troubled teenaged girl on the cusp of adulthood seeking to escape an abusive father and deceitful mother. online pharmacy albuterol over the counter with best prices today in the USA And the narrative is not particularly unique either: …

SXSW Review: Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off

Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Serena Williams, Tom Brady; every sport has a figure everyone around the world can say they know, even if they have no knowledge of the sport in the first place. When it comes to skateboarding, it’s undeniable that Tony Hawk is that recognizable figure. Though the world knows his…

Deep Water, Employs Heliciculture As An Allegory For Human Behaviour

The director of Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful and Indecent Proposal, Adrian Lyne, returns to the big screen with psychological thriller Deep Water, starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. The film, distributed by Hulu, is based on the eponymous novel by Patricia Highsmith, known for penning also the famed book, adapted for the screen, The Talented…

SXSW Review: In the Court of the Crimson King

When it comes to the world of Prog Rock every fan will have their preference as to which band holds the crown as their favorite. Opinion is all that matters when it comes to what a single person likes. But when it comes to King Crimson, I think it is hard to deny that they…

Netflix’s The Andy Warhol Diaries Takes Us On A Journey Inside The Artist’s Mind

The most important artist of all times is homaged by a Ryan Murphy Production, in Netflix’s The Andy Warhol Diaries. Every episode is introduced by eden ahbez’s song Nature Boy, that not only captures the hippie era that Warhol traversed, but also epitomises his essence of a wandering soul who wanted to love and be…