Wasp Network has been directed by Olivier Assayas. The usually perceptive filmmaker’s spy drama film fails to thrill despite its high-stakes, true-life story. Wasp Network premiered at Venice last year. The film goes more for more length than character development or plot concentration. It suffers without letting its extravagantly talented cast bring more to the […]
Lost Bullet is an action movie, and it doesn’t pretend to be anything else. The storyline is linear with hardly any twists, and the characters are generic without any depth to them. The car chases and close-quarters combat is shot well, and the fast pace keeps the viewer hooked. Lost Bullet works because they don’t […]
Birdman Michael Keaton is back with yet another socially aware film, Dopesick. Based on the 2018 non-fiction bestseller by journalist Beth Macy, the Hulu film will look at the opioid epidemic as it spread from the introduction of OxyContin in the 1990s America. The Spotlight star will play Samuel Finnix, an old-school doctor who approaches […]
Step sisters is a film about drama, dance, and being Black on a white campus. The Broad Green Pictures (BGP) production of the comedy comes with an impressive team featuring director Charles Stone III (Drumline), writer Chuck Hayward (Dear White People), and Emmy-winning producer Lena Waithe (Master of None). 1. Quick Review The trailer for […]
Director and screenwriter Yorgos Lanthimos has previously been known for films such as Dogtooth (2009) and The Lobster (2015). Lanthimos is a Greek artist who specializes in venomously funny, bourgeois-baiting absurdism. His previous films have been called cold and heartless. Almost as though in response to this criticism, this one opens with an actual heart […]
Most horror films unspool short stretches of screen time where nothing much happens. Their plots are peppered with moments of blood-curdling mayhem to keep viewers vaguely interested. The Darkness, on the other hand, is a horror film that belches up long stretches of time in which nothing much really happens. Its plot is only occasionally […]
Music buffs, here comes a wonderful treat for y’all right on Netflix – Nobody Knows I Am Here, a heart touching story from the early 90s of a child artist in the Latin music industry. Now I know many of you may have been babies at the time when Garrido (our super star here) and […]
Releasing on Netflix on June 12, this documentary is part of a series of films. The NDG series of documentaries is a choice of French sports activities in the form of a two-hour-long film. NDG stands for Nuit De la Glisse, or Night of the Glide. Magnetic is one of the five documentaries of this […]
Kenneth Branagh’s big-budget extravaganza is a glossy and empty exercise in world-building. It is based on a screenplay by Conor McPherson and Hamish McColl. It crams elements of the first two books into a running time that’s just shy of 90 minutes. The film sacrifices character development and real drama for briskness and whimsy. 1. […]
Pokemon The Movie: Coco is the 23rd film in the franchise and was originally set to premiere on 10th July 2020. However, the official website for the film announced that it would be delayed due to the current pandemic. Another bittersweet announcement by the website came recently. Pokemon The Movie: Coco, initially slated for July […]
As producers and creators across the film industry are making more Black-centric stories available for free, here’s another title from indie distributor Neon. Neon has made the film Monsters and Men, a socially-conscious drama based on a compelling racial turmoil, available for free. The film will be available for streaming throughout June on VOD platforms […]
Spike Lee has shown up with an insurgent filmic uproar to match the uproar in the world today. Da 5 Bloods is a paintball gun loaded with real bullets. It is a blast of satire and emotional agony about race and the American empire. The film holds many important themes that seem extremely relevant to […]
