Jacques Audiard’s latest totally stunning thriller is steeped in violence which seems to be his raison d’être these days. This one starts off briefly in Sri Lanka where Deephan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) a Tamil freedom fighter is trying to flee the country after the latest battle in the civil war has ended in a massacre. He’s been given … Continue reading
French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love’s new movie is a love story of the music of a generation where the plot and people involved really do take a back seat. Right from the opening scene set in 1992 in Parisian suburbs where another illicit rave scene party is taking place in an old deserted fort where they … Continue reading
This is the tragic real-life story of Edwin Valero who transformed himself from a poor petty-thief living a hand-to-mouth existence in a run down suburban Venezuelan small town to becoming the undefeated super-flyweight, and then lightweight boxing champion of the world. This dramatized account starts when the scrawny fit youngster is spotted in … Continue reading
The movie opens with such a shockingly brutal rape scene that stuns one into disbelief. Even knowing that it is helmed by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven who directed the controversial Basic Instinct, and is based on a story by Phillipe Dijan the author of Betty Blue, still doesn’t quite prepare one for the fact that … Continue reading
Clara (Karla Souza) seems an unlikely candidate to be a successful high-flying L.A. gynecologist as she seems to dislike children and actually loathes how happy all of the prospective parents are. It’s not that she is not good at being a Doctor, more the fact that she really is a washout when it comes to have any … Continue reading