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Film Review – Liam Neeson’s 100th Film ‘Marlowe’ Gives Him a Slightly Different Private Detective Role to Play

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…

ACA Film Project: Small Slow But Steady, Pugilism Serves As A Tool For Diversity Empowerment

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…

Magic Mike’s Last Dance, A Ludicrous Plot Peppered With Peacockish Choreographies

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…

Sundance Film Festival/ Review : In Outstanding “Fremont” An Outsider Tries to Find Her Way

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…

Sundance Film Festival / Shortcomings : Review / Randall Park Makes a Playful Comedy About Romance and Asian Representation

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…

Knock At The Cabin, Favours Selflessness Over Nihilism

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…

Sundance Film Festival : The Sundance Winning Film, “A Thousand and One” Captures the Heart of Surviving in New York

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….

Pamela A Love Story, Anderson Takes Control Of The Narrative With Utter Grace

Pamela Anderson wants to set the record straight about all that the media has reported throughout her career and private life. The Netflix documentary, Pamela A Love Story, allows her to share her story through personal videos and diaries. The film portrays a wholesome spirit with an open mind. The sexualised creature that yellow journalism…

Sundance Film Festival Review: Jennifer Connelly Dazzles in the Sophisticated Cultural Satire Bad Behaviour

Creating an equally sophisticated and satirical exploration into the toxicity of a person who has little regard to how their self-serving actions affect the people in their life can be a challengw for even the most experienced filmmakers. But actress Alice Englert, the daughter of Oscar-winning filmmaker Jane Campion, effortlessly crafted a tantalizing story that…

’80 for Brady’: An Inspirational Saga of Girls Gone Rogue

When I initially learned that Paramount’s 80 for Brady was to be a saga about aging actresses, my thoughts immediately gravitated toward another Paramount classic, the 1950 noir epic Sunset Boulevard. That iconic film, a stern and airless saga that charted the decline and fall of Norma Desmond (played by Gloria Swanson), was intense and…

Sundance Film Festival Review: Gael García Bernal Gives an Inspirational Performance as Libre Wrestler Saúl Armendáriz in Affectionate Biopic Cassandro

Courageously shifting into the next professional and personal stages of their lives can offer a liberating freedom for creatives who are eager to attain satisfying fulfillment. That’s certainly the case with filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and Mexican lucha libre wrestler Saúl Armendáriz, who performs under the ring name Cassandro. Williams, who’s an Oscar-winning documentarian, made…