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Nov 16 , 2019

THE LIGHTHOUSE: AN EXCURSION INTO MADNESS

It is hard to imagine that a black-and-white movie about two guys who slowly descend into insanity on an isolated island in the 19th century can be watchable. But The Lighthouse, the latest film by up...

Nov 9 , 2019

DARK FATE: ONE OF THE BETTER TERMINATORS

There is something utterly devastating about the fact that Terminator: Dark Fate completely bombed at the box office. After three movies and a TV show to replicate James Cameron's epic action movie, T...

Nov 2 , 2019

MALEFICENT: A GAME OF THRONES RIP-OFF

In an age where pop-psychology has taken over our collective imagination, Hollywood is as much interested in studying antagonists as it is in fawning over one-dimensional hero figures. This is what th...

Oct 26 , 2019

ZOMBIELAND: AN UNINSPIRED SEQUEL

When Ruben Fleischer made Zombieland in 2009, he was obviously inspired. The only name-actor in the movie was Woody Harrelson, while Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone were still only moderately popular a...

Oct 19 , 2019

DE-AGED MAN

The decisions accomplished Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee has made over the years regarding his choice of scripts has been strange, to say the least. He gained international acclaim after the release of...

Oct 12 , 2019

JOKER GETS THE LAST LAUGH

I found a surprising piece of trivia on IMDB, an online database for all things cinema, about the opening date of Joker, a movie described as violent and cynical. The film, ironically enough, open...

Oct 5 , 2019

JOON-HU’S MAGIC TRICK

One review of Bong Joon-hu's latest film, Parasite, describes it as a magic trick. Of all the critical acclaim that has been lavished on the South Korean maestro, this best describes his genius. Indee...

Sep 28 , 2019

To the Stars

Space is eerie. Its darkness, quietness and coldness stand in stark contrast to the hustle and bustle of the green and blue planet we call home. That is perhaps why space makes an interesting subject...

Sep 21 , 2019

RUNNING FOR THE OSCARS

The 92nd Academy Awards is nearing, and Ethiopia's submission for the Best International Feature Film, formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film, is one of its glitzier films released this year, Ru...

Sep 14 , 2019

IT CHAPTER TWO, MUCH LIKE CHAPTER ONE

The older we become the scarier we tend to find horror movies. It is probably because we grow much more aware of the vulnerability of existence. As children, we are protected by our own naivety, paren...

Sep 7 , 2019

47 METRES DOWN: UNCAGED BANALITY

Almost half a century ago, Steven Spielberg made the first modern blockbuster, Jaws. As luck would have it, the first such box office breakthrough would also be a great horror thriller with carefully...

Aug 31 , 2019

TRILOGY HAS FALLEN

First it was Olympus, then London, and now Angel Has Fallen. No one really cares. The franchise's audience is mostly teenagers interested in seeing some bullets flying and all kinds of objects blowing...

Aug 24 , 2019

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD WITH TARANTINO

Every two, three or four years since the early 1990s, Quentin Tarantino has been making movies that managed to enrich not just cinema but pop culture itself. He has made nine movies since 1992, and hi...

Aug 17 , 2019

WHITE PEOPLE’S DIVING PORT

Considering the high regard we attach to our culture and history, Ethiopians sure are getting the short end of the stick when it comes to representation in the international film, literature, music or...

Aug 10 , 2019

HORRIBLE FRANCHISE PRESENTS: HOBBS AND SHAW

I have stopped caring that the Fast and Furious cinematic universe has no interest in character development, thematic depth or complex story lines. I do not even mind that the franchise has ceased to...

Aug 3 , 2019

CRAWL

If it was not for the fact that Crawl is a meaningless exercise in claustrophobia and herpetophobia, it would have been one of the best horror movies to have come out this decade. It is one of the mos...

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