Review: Zola
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” Who better than Émile Zola to comment on Janciza Bravo’s new movie and his namesake,...
Category: Film and movies
In The Earth: a frighteningly idiosyncratic tale of the weird and the eerie
The philosopher and celebrated pessimist, Eugene Thacker envisages the earth as, “the-world-without-us”, a world that is both, “impersonal and horrific” and disdainful of human existence....
Review: Wrath of Man
When you think about male British actors in Hollywood, you can pretty much narrow them down into two distinct categories: the thespian and the movie star. The cultured thespians like Laurence Olivier...
Review: The Glass Castle
The Walls family has many problems, but their biggest problem is that they do not know exactly what their problem is. Rex and Rose Mary, the parents, want to be free, and freedom for them means doing...
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela: the documentary about the floating ghost town
In Congo Mirador the floating houses decreased in number, the inhabitants took them away in boats to escape the sedimentation that prevented their daily activities. Today, the village is a ghost of...
Review: Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
The documentary Home (2009) consists of three parts. Filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand deals with various concepts with a poetic approach and captures spectacular and sometimes ugly images of nature and...
Review: Nomadland
There are times in Chloé Zhao’ s Nomadland where Frances McDormand’s face, lined and desperate, wistful and stoic seems to peer in from America’s Dust Bowl past to haunt its recent history....
Save Ralph: the short film denouncing cosmetic testing on animals
With a harsh social critique, the animated short film 'Save Ralph' captured the attention of a worldwide audience in just a few minutes. The message is clear and forceful: the testing of cosmetic...
Review: The Mauritanian
Is there any image in the post 9/11 conspiracy drama genre more ubiquitous than heavily redacted legal files? Those black lines struck through word after word like blocks of thunder smothering all...
Review: Archenemy
Joe Manganiello is Max Fist, a hulking hobo who may or may not be a superhero trapped on Earth and stripped of his godlike superpowers. He gulps and snorts earthbound ambrosia like gut rot whiskey...