‘The Great Flood’ Movie Review: Kim Da-mi Shines in a Convoluted Disaster Flick

South Korean cinema holds a prominent place in my cinematic preferences, being a passion that makes me follow almost everything coming out of that region with genuine excitement. Beyond that, disaster movies are my ultimate guilty pleasure. I didn’t have any prior knowledge of director Kim Byung-woo‘s work, nor was …

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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Movie Review: James Cameron Finds Himself Between Technical Brilliance and Creative Stagnation

Writing about James Cameron (Titanic) is always an exercise in managing expectations. It’s a precarious balance between recognizing his technical genius and the hope, sometimes frustrated, that the narrative can keep up with the visual evolution. When Avatar: The Way of Water hit theaters thirteen years after the original production, …

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‘Fallout’ Season 2 Review: Chaotic, Messy Fun

We seem to have entered a season in which video adaptations can no longer be written off as trash before we even watch them. One of the most lauded adaptations has been Amazon’s Fallout, coming back for season 2. Even though I have still not played the game (despite having “New …

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‘Rebuilding’ Film Review – Josh O’Connor’s Melancholic Performance as an American Cowboy in Reconstruction

Usually, the cinema portrays tragedies that occur as incidents or natural disasters, if we call them that. The seasonal ones do not get representation on the big screen. Some regions are more susceptible to tornadoes, natural fires, and earthquakes. They are due to the geographical and geological compositions of those …

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Summertime Sadness: Interview with Chie Hayakawa of Tokyo Drama ‘Renoir’

Renoir, the sophomore feature from Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, continues her cinematic exploration of the notions of death, old age, and loneliness, preoccupations that loom over her body of work, such as in her feature debut Plan 75 (2022), the anthology film Ten Years Japan (2018), which she co-directed with …

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‘Aontas’ Film Review: Irish Language Thriller Is Worth Watching

This clever no-budget thriller is automatically recommended by me because it’s in the Irish language. Its aspirational depiction of life entirely inside the Irish language, which rarely happens in real life, is just wonderful to see. It is also a heist movie, with three women (two of whom are middle-aged) …

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‘The Last One for the Road’ – Francesco Sossai’s Bittersweet Toast to Life

Each generation faces the inevitable clash with the ones before. They were morally superior, enjoyed life better, and lived through their days properly. The generational clash is arguably never fading. Each age gap has divergences within the collective of individuals, particularly in their relationships with the environment and with society …

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‘Belén’ Movie Review – The Portrait of the Success of Argentinian Feminism 

Throughout the complicated formation of Latin America, Catholicism became the norm for the so-called civilization of native populations. Hence, ever since its inception, the new continent has been a Catholic region, colonized mainly by the Portuguese and Spanish. Despite the colonial wounds, the imperial process carries severe traumas, particularly in …

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‘The Balloonists’ Documentary Film Review- An Overly Conventional Telling of an Impressive Achievement

Airplanes are a relatively new technology and type of transportation. Igniting in the 1900s, aviation quickly developed, taking less than 40 years from the first flights to their use as war machinery in World War II. However, at the end of the 1700s, the creation of balloons occurred. Even after …

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‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Proshot Review: Broadway’s Hottest Ticket In a Cinema Near You

The news that the hottest recent ticket on Broadway – Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Maria Friedman and led by the powerhouse trio of Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez from September 2023 to July 2024 – would be professionally filmed and released …

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