Redemption is a compromise that no amount of idealism can achieve unaided. That comes across with unimpeded pungency and passion in YELLOW LETTERS, winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.
YELLOW LETTERS is what …
Set two years after Godzilla was defeated, Japan still hasn’t escaped dealing with monsters as a new dragon-like creature devastates Matsumoto City, putting the Large-Scale Disaster Response Bureau led by director Kenji Noda (played again by Hidetaka Yoshioka) on …
Sandra Hüller cements her status as one of the leading on screen presences in contemporary cinema in Paweł Pawlikowski’s FATHERLAND.
Hüller portrays Thomas Mann’s daughter, Erika, actress, writer, rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the …
Poland, 1981.
Things go from bad to Warsaw for psychiatry professor Andrews who flies from England to Poland at the invitation of a woman to present a paper on mental illness.
Little does she know she is being …
By the thumbing of my prick something weaving this way comes.
Wife and husband writer directors, Eleanor Wilson & Alex Huston Fischer have fashioned a film based on Ursula Wills’ short story, The Wicker Husband, called WICKER.
Olivia Colman stars …
This tale of vengeful spirits moves with the purpose of a motorcade of black SUVs. Directed by Jang Jae-hyun, it tells an updated Korean folktale about the haunting of a wealthy family and the deeper historical tension between Japanese and …
Director Martin McDonagh is unconcerned with the subterfuge and spy craft, more in just bringing to light a terrifically entertaining hang-out movie. Our heroes Chris Carlisle (John Malkovich) and Lee Chesterfield (Sam Rockwell) shoot the shit in a manner thats …
This is sculptured piece of cinema which scores big on romantic magic, beautifully adapted by direction of Georgia Oakley with her screenwriter, Diana Reid elevating sisterhood to the core of the story, resulting in a product that snaps-up the magical …
Happy Halloween—because Halloween falls on a Saturday, the parade of demons began at midday as movie-goers dressed as zombies, witches and vampires to gather for the final “hellhouse” screenings at the Sydney Opera House, including the 1922 silent film Häxan…
CROWN OF THORNS, WHY MY DUCHESS IS AN ENTERTAINING MASTERCLASS IN LATE-CAREER TRIUMPH. Almost alchemical magic that occurs, when a screen legend finally finds the role that perfectly weaponizes their entire mythos. Joan Collins has been synonymous with the imperious, …