The title card that opens Rodrigo Cortés’s Love Gets a Room, gives us the setting of the story (Warsaw in January 1942) and the context of the Warsaw ghetto filled with 400,000 Jews with suffering and inevitable death everywhere. The title card ends with the statement, “Or they try to remember they are still alive.”…
Over the years, Nintendo has defined itself as a brand where adults can feel like kids. Whereas other consoles have invested time and effort into creating realistic gameplay with mature storylines, Nintendo has always gone the other direction. As a company, their intent has been to chart their own path by making their titles accessible…
It’s never easy to revisit our past… but, sometimes, it’s fun to revisit the stories we told. Finally returning for its fourth season on Hollywood Suite, A Year in Film takes a look back at the films that helped define us at specific moments in time. This season, the series focuses its lens on the years 1973,…
Movies are the interaction of light and shadow. We watch the way the light moves on the screen and perceive it as something real. But are we really seeing what is there? What do we miss seeing? If we don’t notice the details, have we missed the whole picture? In Radiance, from director Naomi Kawase,…
“Nobody surfs the first day. Takes a lifetime.” There are lots of things that take a lifetime. But in Gringa, from directors Marny Eng and E. J. Foerster, change in characters’ lives seems to happen almost overnight. That makes for a film that oversimplifies almost everything and never manages to find any depth. Marge (Jess…
Sometimes, the most difficult part of the war is when it’s over. Set at the conclusion of WWII in 1945, Plan A introduces us to Max (August Diehl), a man who dreams nightly of his murdered wife and daughter. Shattered by their loss, Max meets a group of Holocaust survivors who have a plan for revenge. By…
Love can inspire us, heal us and make us feel valuable. But can it also help us find the strength within us? In One True Loves, Emma (Phillipa Soo) seems to have her life together. Engaged to her best friend Sam (Simu Liu) and thrilled with her job at the family bookstore, she is excited about…
“We’re stuck in a limbo…, broken in half.” In Carlos Amaral’s Infinite Sea, we find ourselves in a mildly post-apocalyptic world. More specifically, we find ourselves left behind. If I were someone who thought of an eschatological Rapture, I’m sure that this film would have some interesting concepts. The film takes place in a city…
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…
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…
