Film Review: “Hotel Mumbai” (2018) ★★★★★
Why can’t we people, ordinary human beings, live together happily ever after? Why do we create some cheap excuses to hate each other? Why do we use religion to kill our [continue reading]
TIFF 2018
TIFF 2018 Review: “Hotel Mumbai” (2018) ★★★★★
Why can’t we people, ordinary human beings, live together happily ever after? Why do we create some cheap excuses to hate each other? Why do we use religion to kill our [continue reading]
TIFF 2018 Review: “Birds of Passage” (2018) ★★★★★
What does money bring? Power, or the much needed support to satisfy all the needs we have? Does it really corrupt our mind, soul and compromise our choices, forcing us to [continue reading]
TIFF 2018 Interview: Benedikt Erlingsson On “Woman At War”
Woman At War Director Benedikt Erlingsson. Courtesy of Mongrel Media European cinema has always been rich, imaginative, and creative. The subject matter they have in their [continue reading]
TIFF 2018 Interview: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir Talks “Woman At War”
Still from Woman At War. Photo by Benedikt_Erlingsson. Courtesy of Mongrel Media In most cases, it takes only one person to change the world. You might wonder how. The answer [continue reading]
TIFF 2018 Review: “Gloria Bell” (2018) ★★★★★
When I first heard about the remake of Sebastián Lelio’s magnificent “Gloria” with Paulina, I was a bit upset, but when the following news emerged that Lelio himself [continue reading]
Interview: Nadine Labaki on “Capernaum” and Its Importance
Nadine Labaki, director of Capernaum, headshot, courtesy of Sony Picture Classics Life is an amusing thing, and for some it may appear like a toy. Just see how many families [continue reading]
TIFF 2018 Review: “Capernaum” (2018) ★★★★★
Life is an amusing thing, and for some it may appear like a toy. Just see how many families are out there that want to have children, but cannot. And how many are out there [continue reading]
TIFF 2018 Review: “Destroyer” (2018) ★★★★★
Whenever there’s a Nicole Kidman movie coming out, it is safe to assume that there would be at least one close up scene. If you remember “Dogville”, “Lion”, “To [continue reading]
NYFF 2018 Review: “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018) ★★★★★
What if? What if not? What if the walls could talk? What about the streets? How much information can a house keep? What can we tell or cannot tell? Can we hear what we say, [continue reading]
