Month: June 2022

A touching and emotional drama about three old loners who chose to live away from civilization, somewhere deep in the forests of Quebec, was shot by the eminent Canadian Francophone filmmaker Louise Archambault. Ted (Kenneth …

    Twenty years before the world was paralyzed by the Covid-19 virus epidemic, there was a danger that a far more dangerous and deadly respiratory virus could spread. It is the SARS virus that …

Another impressive documentary is coming to us from Brazil. Experienced filmmaker Marcelo Gomes has ventured into the northeastern Brazilian province of Pernambuco. The director himself is also a narrator here who remembers how as a …

  I remembered the Kazakh filmmaker Adilkan Yerzhanov after the previous film, the black-humored absurdist crime “A Dark, Dark Man”. That film impressed me so much that I included it in the list of the …

Still, British Steve McQueen’s “12 Years of Slavery” is probably the best film about the American slaveholding system ever made. Perhaps not so much shocking, as we’ve seen it all before, as a poignant, emotional, …

    We still remember the Palestinian Hanya Abu-Assad for better films than “Huda’s Salon”. As many as two of his films (Paradise Now and Omar) have been nominated for Oscars, but unfortunately Abu-Assad has …

Religious fundamentalism can often grow into something very unhealthy, but also extremely dangerous. There are many examples of this, let’s just remember one fresh one ISILbut other religions, primarily Christianity, have not been deprived of …

We also learned what “The French Connection” works in the legendary action crime crime novel by William Friedkin in 1971 with Gene Hackman in the lead role. according to actual events. The French connection was …

Arthur Bretnik (Aaron Eckhart) is a mentally unstable conspiracy theorist and private investigator with a traumatic past. Apparently Arthur has gone astray after his daughter was killed in a car accident and his wife ended …