Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom sees Israeli-American director Evgeny Afineevsky putting together harrowing footage and interviews from Ukrainians across the country. The film displays the fighting, struggling, surviving and living that everyday people face during the Russian invasion. This film comes after Afineevsky made a film in 2014 called Freedom on Fire where…
Admiral Taizo Tachibana (Ryudo Uzaki) receives word that an American submarine has gone missing.??A rescue team spots a giant creature with glowing dorsal spines swimming away from the wreckage. While filming a TV program near Mount Myoko, Niigata, Yuri Tachibana (Chiharu Niiyama), Admiral Tachibana?s daughter, experiences an earthquake and sees a mysterious man who quickly…
After Freddie decides to return to the country of her birth, she discovers that her origins have a lot more to do with her life than she had first thought. The second narrative feature from French Director Davy Chou, Return to Seoul comes out of Cambodia as their official submission to the Oscars. Inspired by…
They say the journey is more important than the destination. In?Joyride, that may actually be true. Directed by Emer Reynolds, Joyride tells the story of Joy (Olivia Colman), a struggling but headstrong mother who has devised a plan to give her baby to her sister. Then, when her taxi is inadvertently co-opted by the young and opinionated…
?You are a very sad person.? Davy Chou?s film Return to Seoul is a searching for identity and belonging. But what if the discoveries are less than satisfying? And whose fault is it for the failure to connect? Return to Seoul is Cambodia?s submission for Oscar consideration. It made the shortlist, but was not nominated….
By Ben Dower After Godzilla?s attack in 1954, he disappeared into the ocean and Japan changed its capital city to Osaka.??In 1966, Godzilla attacked Japan?s first nuclear power plant at Tokai, and so the country shifted to other forms of energy production.??In 1996, Japan developed plasma energy, but that also attracted Godzilla, who came to…
?Hope dies last.? The Oscar?-nominated documentary A House Made of Splinters, directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont, takes place in the shadow of the war in Ukraine. The location is only 20 kilometers from the front. While the war is not explicitly a part of the film, the film cannot be viewed without knowing that the…
Phase Five has finally begun… with surprisingly muted fanfare? All of a sudden, one of the most highly anticipated entries in the MCU has been declared a colossal failure by many critics and fans. But is it a disappointment? Or just another brick in the very long road towards The Kang Dynasty? This week, the…
Directed by Matthew J. Saville, Juniper tells the story of Sam (George Ferrier), a teenager struggling with self-destructive behavior. When he?s finally suspended from school, his frustrated father Robert (Marton Csokas) demands that he cares for his ailing (but alcoholic) grandmother Ruth (Charlotte Rampling). Ruth is a fiery woman who refuse to play by the rules but, as…
With last week’s arrival of the controversial ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA, the MCU juggernaut continues it’s journey towards the next Avengers extravaganza. But, with ‘superhero fatigue’ seemingly settling in, middling reviews from Phase Four have struggled since Thanos’ final snap. This week, the Marvelettes (Miriam Ibrahim & Dina Hamdieh) get the band back together…
