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Mar 7 , 2020

THE VISIBLE WOMAN

There is only one thing worse than a stalker - a stalker that is invisible. We are afraid of what we cannot see, but we are even more afraid of what can see us without being noticed. But the villai...

Feb 29 , 2020

FANTASY ISLAND, NOT AUDIENCE'S FANTASY

Fantasy Island is a terrible movie. But it is also ambitious. It wants to be a mystery movie packaged into a horror one. It also tries to tell us something about the human condition. Our fantasies are...

Feb 22 , 2020

SONIC: PART CASH GRAB, PART LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT, PART JIM CARREY

There has never been a truly successful movie adaptation of a video game. And yet, Hollywood studio executives have attempted to break the cycle for at least three decades. Perhaps they believe that v...

Feb 15 , 2020

BIRDS OF PREY: THE ANTI-JOKER

There is no shortage of terrible superhero movies, but the genre reached a new low with DC's Suicide Squad. It was an insult to the great actors involved - Will Smith, Viola Davis and Margot Robbie -...

Feb 8 , 2020

THE OSCAR: HITS AND MISSES

The 2020 Oscars, the most prestigious award ceremony in cinema, takes place today. The year has presented one of the strongest contenders in a long while. Mainstream movies have touched upon compli...

Feb 1 , 2020

1917: GIMMICKY CINEMATOGRAPHY, GREAT STORY

There is a lot of moving involved in a nightmare, but we remain stuck regardless. We later realise after waking up that what we have been running from all along was the nightmare itself, not any one o...

Jan 25 , 2020

BAD BOYS NO MORE

What I am going to say may sound unbelievable. But I have gone over it several times in my mind. I have analysed, examined and researched. The verdict is clear. Bad Boys for Life, the third instalment...

Jan 18 , 2020

KNIVES OUT: RIAN JOHNSON'S EXQUISITE WHODUNIT

Rian Johnson may have made the best Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi, since The Empire Strikes Back. But the fans found it too unusual for a Star Wars movie, and critics believed that it had too many pl...

Jan 11 , 2020

THE FAREWELL: SPIRIT OF OZU

The concept for The Farewell is simple. A Chinese-American living in New York is told that her grandmother, who lives in China, has terminal lung cancer. Her days are numbered – three months tops. ...

Jan 4 , 2020

ADAM SANDLER: A GEM

Uncut Gems is one of those movies that probably will not win many awards, earn a lot of money or even be recognised as a definite classic decades after its release. Instead, it is the kind of movie...

Dec 28 , 2019

STAR WARS CRAWLS TO A FINISH

In 2019, three highly beloved series came to an end. First, it was Game of Thrones. The last season of the Tv show dropped in April, and it was everything we hoped it would not be. It was rushed and d...

Dec 21 , 2019

Divorce Story

I have never been married, let alone divorced. But I am old enough to have figured out that each marriage is different in its own way and encompasses a great many subtleties younger people such as I w...

Dec 14 , 2019

SCORSESIAN EPIC

No one in the history of cinema has become such an expert at taking a certain genre, organized crime, and expounding on it in ever more profound ways. The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro, Al Paci...

Dec 7 , 2019

HUMAN AMBITION V CORPORATE GREED

In a world actively trying to style itself after the West's brand of development, industrialisation has been the buzz word for quite some time. Indeed, development any other way seems all but impossib...

Nov 30 , 2019

FROZEN 2:COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE

To find out that Frozen - the cheesiest movie since human kind discovered cheese - would get a sequel almost felt like losing a loved one. I did not only have to endure the high-pitched, monotonous mo...

Nov 23 , 2019

CHARLIE’S ANGELS: NOTHING ANGELIC ABOUT IT

There are few words in the English language to explain the utter inanity of the Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu starring remake of the 1970s TV show of the same name, Charlie's Angels. Th...


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