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Great Absence Review: Lost Memory and Japanese Excellence

I’ll remember it all. Though I won’t recall it. The words echo in the theater and a man’s androgynous face makes expressive grimaces on a large screen. In front of it, the same man, long haired with sideboards, moves down in fright, like he’s detaching himself. Just before, a police squad has arrived at a house…

Toronto International Film Festival Review – ‘The Son’ is a Flawed Portrait of the Challenges of Parenting

It’s not easy to be a parent, and one of the most challenging parts of the job is not knowing what a child will be like ahead of time. Kids are to a degree shaped by how their parents raise them, but they are also influenced by other factors and develop personality traits of their…

The Oscar Winning Actor, Anthony Hopkins to Play Sigmund Freud in “Freud’s Last Session”

Two-time Oscar winning actor from “Silence of the Lambs” and “The Father,” Anthony Hopkins is set to take on the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud in a new project called, “Freud’s Last Session” which was launched in the Cannes market. “Freud’s Last Session“ is being directed Matthew Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity), working from a…

The Top 10 Best Films Of 2021

It’s New Year’s Eve, it’s time to look back at the past year in cinema and select the top 10 best films of 2021. We picked our favorites, so check out to see what we selected. To pay homage to filmmakers and actors, we don’t dare to rank them. Abe Friedtanzer  ・CODA ・Malcolm and Marie…

Anthony Hopkins Reunites with ‘The Father’ Filmmaker for New Drama ‘The Son’

Anthony Hopkins has reunited with his The Father filmmaker Florian Zeller for a second movie called The Son. Zeller adapted his play The Son for the screen. “After our journey on The Father, I couldn’t make another film without Anthony,” Zeller said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “He was the first one to read…

We have selected our picks for the Oscar!

At last, tomorrow will be the Oscar ceremony. So I asked our staff to personally choose their selection in six major categories of the Academy Awards. Those are six categories. Actor in a Supporting Role Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah” Leslie Odom, Jr., “One…

The Father, A Poetic Stream Of Consciousness Of A Withering Mind — Film Review

The Father is a 2020 drama film co-written and directed by Florian Zeller, that takes spectators on a delicate journey through the windmills of a human mind, one that is shattering to pieces. The film marks Zeller’s feature debut, with the adaptation of his 2012 play Le Père — which won in 2014 the Molière…