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Andrea Silvestro’s Claire is a complete package of engaging cinema. Claire is a young woman who is coping with the slow fallout of her relationship with her fiancé and struggles to let go of her feelings for him. The story of Claire will lead you through the grief of her character and leave you in… Continue reading Claire: A Fine Example of Melancholy on Cinema

Finally, we get a clown film that clowns instead of scaring unsuspecting children into a paralysing lifelong fear of people who are only trying to make you laugh. Written by Jack George and directed by Jack B. Levy, Stop IT! sneaks in the giggles, satisfying itself with winning the small battles and merrily mocking itself… Continue reading Stop IT!: Stopping Pennywise With Jokes

Filippo Savoia’s Modern Animals does not have a cat-and-mouse chase in it, but it has the unmistakable influence of the Coen brothers’ masterpiece, No Country For Old Men. Co-written by Guillermo Noriega, Modern Animals is a murderous philosophical deliberation on choice, violence and humankind’s capacity for both.  A murder has taken place in a small… Continue reading Modern Animals: Philosophy, Violence and Gossip with A Dash of Style

Things That Fall unfolds at a college, introducing us to Alex who is struggling with his midterm exam. Alex suffers from auditory hallucinations, which quickly borders on unbearable for the viewer in the limited time that the film subjects you to it. Written and directed by Sy Huq, Things That Fall takes the viewer into… Continue reading ‘Things That Fall’: Overriding Limitations to Find Connection

Tony is a film you will remember. A crime drama that is an homage to Scarface, and by extension to The Godfather, with a non-gimmicky look of the 80s and strong performances all around, Tony is a film you will most definitely remember.  There is nary a flaw in the film’s making (written and directed… Continue reading Tony: The Ambitions Of Abuse-Ravaged Teenagers

Following on the same lines of her earlier work (The Dark Side of the Sun), director-writer Samantha Michelle’s ‘In the Campfire Light’ is a slow exploration of the sexploitation in the entertainment industry. But, unlike the rest in the genre, it centres on the moments that lead up to the act than the act itself.… Continue reading ‘In the Campfire Light’: A Dance of Power & Exploitation

Dan McNamara’s farcical sci-fi series a la 90’s (bad) TV, Wish Weasel is just what it implies. There are weasels–outer space weasels– which have the power to grant wishes, but with an unprinted fine print.    Belonging to the Wishomites, the eponymous Wish Weasel (voiced by Ricky Downes III) lands on earth upon banishment from his… Continue reading Wish Weasel: The 90’s Brought Back To Life