This is a good movie, objectively. The shots are creative, the actors talented, the story heavy. What do I mean by that? That at one point the carpet becomes a film reel, that June Zero weaves together three different perspectives, that…
Kiran Rao's directorial Laapataa Ladies back by Aamir Khan Productions has been receiving rave reviews and lots of love from fans and critics on social media. The film follows the story of two newly-wed brides who get exchanged during a…
The animation, as to be expected, is brilliantly rendered and the story smart and captivating. While it doesn’t pack the emotional wallop of “IF,” it’s still a great film to take the fmily to.
After impressing many viewers and critics two years ago with his wildly original debut film The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra, Park Syeyoung returns to BiFan with his second feature, Base Station, which he co-directed with artist and filmmaker…
Despicable Me 4, released in the U.S. on July 3, 2024, has received mixed reviews from fans and critics. While it doesn't push the boundaries of the animated film franchise, it offers nostalgic entertainment for the whole family. However,…
Cabin fever… Magalie Lépine Blondeau and Pierre-Yves Cardinal in The Nature of Love. Photograph: Immina Films/Fred Gervais With this sparky, sexy French-language Canadian romcom, Québéc director Monia Chokri takes one of the hoariest of…
The reviews are in for Oz Perkins’ “Longlegs” and so far the film has received a universally positive reaction it seems. With 19 reviews counted on Rotten Tomatoes, it sits at a 100% (8.2/10) rating which is incredibly high for a horror…
There have been some memorable parent-child films I’ve seen of late: Nowhere Special, Ezra, and Ghostlight, to name a few. Here we have a single mother named Janet who lives with her 11-year-old daughter Lacy in rural Massachusetts. What…
SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains mild spoilers. Now here’s a first: Apart from the pale-faced freak show of the film’s title, the experience of watching “Longlegs” didn’t strike me as all that frightening. At first. In the…
Janet Planet (2023) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Annie Baker and starring Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Will Patton, Sophie Okonedo, Elias Koteas, Carolyn Walker, Mary Shultz, Abby Harri, June Walker Grossman and Luke…
On July 5, 2024, A24 released “MaXXXine,” a slasher film written, directed, produced and edited by Ti West that has Mia Goth reprising her role as Maxine Minx in the third installment of the “X” franchise. Certified fresh with a score of…
Cellphone is a 2024 horror drama film about a young woman who starts seeing disturbing images on her phone after her fiancé’s death. Directed by Luke Sommer from a screenplay …
If Alexander Payne’s home discomforts weren’t Nebraskan but instead the soft climate and flat sidewalks of Rotterdam — if his name were Alexander Peijn, perhaps — his films might turn out a little like Peter Hoogendoorn’s hangdog charmer…
The film Daddio is a movie about a cab driver named Clark (Sean Penn), who picks up a woman (Dakota Johnson) from JFK airport in New York and drives her home to Manhattan.
Aloners: Review. By Joe Muldoon. Some films adopt such an incisive realism that they resemble fly-on-the-wall documentary filmmaking more than cinema itself – first-timer Hong Sung-eun’s Aloners presents itself as such, similarly to Ken…