[Spoilers!] You can tell from the title: The Burning Train is a huge disaster movie imperiling half of the Bombay film industry’s contemporary A-listers, and I couldn’t be more delighted. Pick up your #2 pencils and answer the following: 1) What is the maximum possible speed of our […]
Bellenac’s vineyards are failing and the solution will not be a new strain or a scientific intervention. The farmers seek an older solution: a willing sacrifice.
This is probably not sufficient to convince you that Gabriele Mainetti’s The Forbidden City is one of my favourite movies of the year, but I’m just going to start with a non-exhaustive list of items used as weapons in the film’s spectacular, and spectacularly brutal, action sequences: If […]
In 1986, 21-year-old Richard Lowrey and his brother, Tor Reyel Lowry, undertook the arduous task of directing their first feature film, Hawk Jones. His vision included a city under siege by a crime syndicate, a hardened cop hot on their trail, a seedy atmosphere grounded in an urban […]
I like a clever mystery or procedural show but I often have to set aside the pieces that don’t align with my ethics and worldview in order to enjoy them. I mean, technically murder itself doesn’t align with my ethics so I’m always setting that aside, but every […]
Mother Of Flies is not only a film about the transformation of a curse into a gift. It is not only a film about a harrowing ritual of healing. Mother of Flies is itself a ritual, a rite of healing.