Deadstream (2022) by Joseph and Vanessa Winter captures the old-school thrills that horror films used to guarantee. No matter how far-fetched or unbelievable the story gets, Deadstream (2022) always keeps returning to the right track thanks to the boatloads of … Continue reading Deadstream (2022) Review – SXSW Film Festival

Linoleum (2022) unfolds like the most unexpected of tales – stretched across multiple layers of narrative and symbolism that arrive at a heartfelt truth about the things that make our lives important. After debuting last year with a reversed ghost … Continue reading Linoleum (2022) Review – SXSW Film Festival

What Watcher (2022) should have been – that is engrossing vivisection of how paranoia messes with fact-based observations – quickly morphs into a tedious series of wasted opportunities and endless misfires. Despite the simple premise, Watcher (2022) had the upper … Continue reading Watcher (2022) Review – Sundance Film Festival

I have finally made my cinephile dream come true and attended Sundance Film Festival. Here’s the coverage of all the 15 films I have seen. I can’t recall the last time when any festival was so deeply immersed in the … Continue reading Top Movies of Sundance Film Festival 2022

Theatrical in its form and ridiculously timely in its message about sexuality and pleasure, Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (2022) unexpectedly rises to become this Sundance edition’s secret must-see gem. Having two actors do all the heavy lifting in … Continue reading Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (2022) Review – Sundance Film Festival

Aubrey Plaza stars in a by-the-book nail-biter that provides mild thrills and even less food for thought despite its grand ambitions to be a socially-engaged commentary. Nonetheless, Fans of Plaza’s previous works will surely relish. A down-on-luck girl Emily (Aubrey … Continue reading Emily The Criminal (2022) Review – Sundance Film Festival

Danish filmmaker Christian Tafdrup brings a meticulously crafted, blood-curdling story about letting evil do as it pleases. Speak No Evil (2022) is one of the tensest thrillers in recent years. Why do bad people do bad things? Reasons vary. Aristotle … Continue reading Speak No Evil (2022) – Sundance Film Festival

Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones give their best in a gory variation on captivity horrors in Sundance thriller Fresh (2022). Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) has little luck finding her second half online, as blatantly portrayed in the opening scene of a … Continue reading Fresh (2022) Review – Sundance Film Festival

While most of its proceedings see Rebecca Hall’s bonafide performance at the front, Resurrection (2022) struggles to find its depth. Nonetheless, this is a memorable thriller that’s resolved in the least expected but also shocking way. Margaret (Rebecca Hall) has … Continue reading Resurrection (2022) Review – Sundance Film Festival

The tragic coming-of-age drama Palm Trees And Power Lines (2022) illustrates the dynamics between prey and predator through a slow-burn simmer of a movie, anchored by two complex roles from Lily McInerny and Jonathan Tucker. Cinema has been inch-by-inch expanding … Continue reading Palm Trees And Power Lines (2022) Review – Sundance Film Festival

A veritable masterpiece existing on the verge of arthouse horror and folk-tale phantasmagoria, You Won’t Be Alone (2022) is destined to divide audiences and perhaps make A24 wonder how did they not acquire this film that’s tailor-made to their portfolio. … Continue reading You Won’t Be Alone (2022) Review – Sundance Film Festival

Utama (2022) – a patient meditation more than a full-fledged drama – marks a captivating debut for photographer-turned-director Alejandro Loayza Grisi. Festival-goers will surely notice why Utama (2022) seems like a younger cousin of Birds of Passage (2018) by Cristina … Continue reading Utama (2022) Review – Sundance Film Festival

How do you conclude a story that covers five films, fifteen years of making, and a world that has run a marathon of changes in the meantime? Cary Joji Fukunaga provides an answer with No Time To Die (2021), a troubled and uneven conclusion to the Daniel Craig era of James Bond. Among the many more and less lucrative universes created in cinema’s history, hardly any can boast such continuity as the Bondverse. Generations gasped at the consecutive adventures of the double-o-seven, and although the face has changed over the years, most of the incarnations carried a similar, gentleman’s bravado. … Continue reading No Time To Die (2021) Review