by Miguel Cima | Apr 17, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
Few things hurt the same way as being really good at something, and not being able to get a job doing it. Julia Solomonoff’s Nobody’s Watching is a funny and sad film about a fish-out-of-water Argentine TV actor trying to make it in the big time of New...
by Miguel Cima | Apr 17, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
Welcome to a little boy’s nightmare, courtesy of the cold and cruel world of adulthood’s many sins. Son of Sofia is the powerful sophomore effort from Greek filmmaker Elina Psykou. Using transitions between a harsh, stern reality and the deeply dark realm of an abused...
by Miguel Cima | Apr 12, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
Sick of linear narrative movies starring huge Hollywood stars? Well, here’s Cate Blanchett (yes, that Cate Blanchett) as the only star of an ambitious avant garde experimental feature film that works as a mosaic and doubles as a video installation. And it’s really,...
by Miguel Cima | Apr 7, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
If you want to really feel what tension is – muscular tension, dramatic tension, visual tension, the relentless stretching of the body, the psyche, the vast windswept landscape of Iceland and maybe even an imaginary reel of film – then director Guðmundur Arnar...
by Miguel Cima | Apr 1, 2017 | Theatrical Reviews
Sometimes a risky experiment that doesn’t work 100% is still a very valuable experience and even more worthy than an enterprise which does work, but takes no chances. Italian filmmakers Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro took quite the chance making Mine, their...
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