A Art Tv Review

The profound cultural impact of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami cannot be underestimated. There are countless examples of how Japanese cinema has been influenced by national disasters over the years, with Shinya Kawatsura's "The House of the Lost on the Cape" being one of the latest films to fit into this category. Based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Sachiko Kashiwaba, the film tells a sweet and calming story focused on grief and family. After the Tohoku disaster sweeps through the city of Kitsunezaki, teenage Yui (Mana Ashida) takes advantage of the ensuing shock to flee her troubled home life. Shortly after befriending orphan Hiyori (Sari Awano) at a help center, the two girls are taken in by Kiwa-san (Shinobu Otake), a mysterious but kind old woman who poses as her grandmother. Moving into an old house on a cape, the three team up with mystical allies to confront an ancient threat. Director: Shin'ya Kawatsura Writers: Sachiko Kashiwaba, Reik...

Whenever you see footage of a war, uprising or famine, there is usually a correspondent on camera, providing context for the disturbing images you see. They get a lot of credit for the work they do (and they should: they put themselves in harm's way over and over again to shine a light on human suffering that would otherwise go unnoticed). But behind each of those harrowing news segments, there is a cameraman or, more recently, a female cameraman who is equally worthy of recognition. No Ordinary Life pays homage to the trailblazing female photojournalists of the 1980s and 1990s, who launched into a dangerous career dominated by men no one thought they could handle and ended up bringing a unique empathy to the horrors they captured on film as part of the news of the day. No Ordinary Life highlights the careers of five cameras: Mary Rogers, Cynde Strand, Margaret Moth, Maria Fleet, and Jane Evans. They all entered the scene at about the same time and were fully committed to the work ...

An insightful and intimate documentary from veteran actor Ruben Pla, The Horror Crowd spotlights the dedicated nightmare makers who make up the Hollywood horror community. We've all seen a horror movie and wondered who came up with such insane material and, furthermore, who would watch such insane material. The Horror Crowd, a documentary directed and presented by actor and filmmaker Ruben Pla, tries to offer an insight into the people behind the genre, as well as those who can't get enough of watching it. Director: Ruben Pla Stars: Lin Shaye, Greg Grunberg, Russell Mulcahy At its core, the film wants to consider what draws people to horror as performers and viewers. Divided into a series of awkwardly titled chapters, Pla's documentary touches on a wide range of influences beyond the films themselves, be it the personal darkness of his subjects, their life experiences, our universal fear of death, etc. . Despite the overall unevenness of the documentary, Pla at least deserv...

Although Blind Ambition touches on the ravages of colonialism, racism and xenophobia, the documentary stays firmly within the “something good to watch with your family” genre. Depending on your point of view, this can be understood as a strength. The film follows four Zimbabwean immigrants living in South Africa who travel to France to represent their home country at the World Wine Tasting Championships. The title refers to a central element of the tasting: the bottles from which the tasters drink are covered to avoid any advantage in determining the origin of the wine or prejudices about the wine. That wine tasting is a completely rich and white western pastime is not up for debate. Not only does it take a lot of money to be exposed to a wide variety of wines (or, say, take a tour of the vineyards of the South of France) to develop the palate, but familiarity with fruits like strawberries is also required. who are native to Europe. For those outside of these regions, the learning curv...

Wednesday will take wicked to a whole new level this Halloween. Jenna Ortega is taking on the beloved role in the new Netflix series, and Wednesday Addams has lost some of the bite out of her (literally). A new video, released on August 24, features the cast and crew breaking down what to expect in the highly anticipated series. Wednesday, like the rest of her fearsome relatives, was created by cartoonist Charles Addams for illustrations in The New Yorker, beginning in the 1930s. The Addams Family has been adapted over the years in countless media projects, including the '90s movie franchise that featured Christina Ricci as Wednesday. For the 2019 animated film and its sequel, Wednesday was voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz.  Stars: Jenna Ortega, Christina Ricci, Catherine Zeta-Jones Netflix revealed the main teaser on August 17. When Pugsley is bullied at school, Wednesday plots her revenge. "The only person who can torture my brother is me," Wednesday tells a group full of c...

In the metal subculture of music, the late singer Ronnie James Dio can still be counted as the most beloved figure in the genre, which makes him ideal for a documentary. He was almost completely uncontroversial, which doesn't necessarily bode well for such treatment. The guy who popularized the so-called "devil horns" hand gesture wasn't a demon. He just put one on MTV, or at least enjoyed dragging the sinister imagery, even if in real life he looked like a friendly kid from upstate New York who had made it big with a penchant for vaguely mystical imagery and a mountain. Life-size voice that could fill the largest halls. “Dio: Dreamers Never Die,” the latest in a series of mostly unassuming, effective rock documentaries produced by BMG, doesn't present his subject as a particularly tortured or even complicated guy. It may be the most drug-free documentary ever made about a preeminent figure in hard rock (although a line of coke does make a cameo in the archive foo...

After We Fell saw Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) discover some shocking family secrets that shook him to the core. After Ever Happy opens in London with Hardin's devoted girlfriend, Tessa (Josephine Langford), trying to help him deal with new information. Under the influence of a bottle of whiskey, Hardin doesn't appreciate Tessa's kind reassurance: she wants to act directly. His inhibitions washed away by alcohol, Hardin commits a serious criminal act and sends a heartbroken Tessa back to the States. Director: Castille Landon Writers: Sharon Soboil, Anna Todd Stars: Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Louise Lombard For Tessa, the duel has only begun. Returning home, she is swept up in a family tragedy that brings in a repentant Hardin as a runner to prove her devotion. But Tessa isn't sure she wants Hardin's company. Her relationship drama has exhausted her and she says, “I feel like I'm drowning. I don't know if I can keep fighting against the current ...

Blue Fox Entertainment has purchased the US rights to StudioCanal's Waiting for Bojangles, the critically acclaimed French-language romance film directed by Régis Roinsard, starring Romain Duris, Virginie Efira and Grégory Gadebois. It's not often that a French film comes across as moving as the romantic drama En Attendant Bojangles (2022), or “Waiting For Bojangles” in English, directed by Régis Roinsard. As a longtime fan of French movies and 1960s culture, I couldn't wait to see this movie. This movie was an adaptation of the best-selling French novel of the same name, written by first author Olivier Bourdeaut and released in 2016. The book was an instant hit with French people, and I've seen it recommended multiple times since moving to France. in 2019. During my Christmas break last December, I finally got a chance to read the book and quickly understood why so many people fell in love with the leads. Director: Régis Roinsard Writers: Olivier Bourdeaut, Romain Comp...

Burial is documentary filmmaker Emilija Škarnulyte's sparse, detailed and disturbing look at the ongoing cleanup at Lithuania's decommissioned Ignalina nuclear reactor, Chernobyl's sister power plant, which was taken offline shortly after the latter suffered a meltdown. disastrous due to structural and technological similarities. At the peak of its production capabilities, Ignalina was the most powerful nuclear power plant in the world. Now, it's a delicate ecological issue trying to clean it up, one that will continue to the end of this century and beyond. There's no dialogue throughout Burial, except for a bit of stock audio and a bit of on-screen text here and there for context. Škarnulyte often works in close-ups, appropriately trying to get to the atomic level of everything, which sometimes offers some disturbing images, especially in an abandoned underwater uranium mine. Director: Ben Parker Writer: Ben Parker Stars: Tom Felton, Harriet Walter, Charlotte Vega ...

Initially cast as a "Best in Show"-style mockumentary of #MeToo-era megachurch culture, Adamma Ebo's feature directorial debut "Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul" is steadily moving into deeper territory. dark, although everything is in service to bite a target-rich environment ripe for on-screen extraction. With stars Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown doing predictably divine work (do these two artists know any other way?), “Honk for Jesus” is both hilarious and painful, a scathing rebuke of the kind of people who should have. done a long time ago. he realized that no one, especially smartly dressed shepherds, is above God. Once at the top of the heap in their Georgia hometown, thanks to their Southern Baptist congregation of thousands at the posh Wander to Greater Pastures megachurch, Trinitie (Hall) and Lee-Curtis (Brown) have been mired in scandal for months. that almost sinks them. Through amusingly crafted newsreels and fake footage, Ebo introduces the duo an...

 The owner of a scale factory intervenes in the lives of his employees to receive an award in this award-winning Spanish film from director Fernando León de Aranoa. A scale proves to be a rich and apt metaphor for keeping a business going in the slyly engaging workplace comedy "The Good Boss," which was the big winner at Spain's equivalent of the Oscars last winter. Set in a scale factory, the film adopts balance as its theme and watchword. Such respect for subtlety tends to beg at the Academy Awards, but it garnered a record 20 nominations at Spain's Goya Awards and won six awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Javier Bardem, and Best Director and Screenplay for the writer. and director Fernando León de Aranoa. . Director: Fernando León de Aranoa Writer: Fernando León de Aranoa Stars: Javier Bardem, Manolo Solo, Almudena Amor “The Good Boss” depicts a hectic week in the life of Julio Blanco (Mr. Bardem, proving that he can be remarkable even when playing som...

The first full trailer for Medieval, a historical epic starring Ben Foster as Czech hero Jan Žižka, has been released following the release of a trailer in May. Titled Jan Žižka for the Czech market, the film will hit theaters in Prague on September 8 along with a limited release in other markets, including the United States. With an estimated budget of 500 million crowns, Medieval is billed as the most expensive Czech film ever made. The film was shot four years ago, during the summer of 2018, before a long post-production process that included postponements due to the pandemic. Director: Petr Jákl Writers: Petr Jákl, Petr Jakl Sr., Marek Dobes Stars: Ben Foster, Sophie Lowe, Michael Caine Alongside Foster as legendary 14th-century general Jan Žižka, Medieval also stars Michael Caine, Til Schweiger, Sophie Lowe, Roland Møller, Matthew Goode and William Moseley among its impressive international cast. Local talent featured in the film includes Karel Roden as King Wenceslaus IV. Medieva...

The Princess, Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton, the film's screenwriters, explain how they came up with the idea for their project. The duo wanted to turn convention on its head, to dream up a story in which a princess defies society's expectations of her. Lustig, a parent, was especially interested in emphasizing the novelty of this movie in the brief conversation: “I was like, 'Okay, here are all these princess movies. But what if you were rude?’” It seems that Mulan, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Tiana, and more recently Merida don't count. Perhaps they are not harsh and forthright enough. Maybe your adventures don't have enough action sequences. Perhaps these young women needed to be more uncompromising and intimidating. Or perhaps the lessons its stories teach were meant to be more obvious, telegraphed repeatedly, and so forceful that watching the film becomes an endurance test rather than entertainment, sort of like The Princess. Directed by Le-Van Kiet and written by Lust...

A bittersweet modern fairy tale from one of cinema's most bombastic virtuosos, George Miller's "Three Thousand Years of Longing" might have some reservations about the 21st century: The film often struggles with the impact that science and technology could take on our old sense of wonder. — but at the bottom of this hermetically bottled epic lies a question that should especially resonate with people who have spent far too many of the past 3,000 days cooped up in their homes with nothing but "content" to keep them company: Are the stories enough? to satisfy our lives? Acclaimed narratologist Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton, as if anyone else could play acclaimed narratologist Dr. Alithea Binnie), would like to think so. Once upon a time she was married to a handsome academic, but when that jerk left her for someone younger, she learned to make peace with her loneliness. Being alone, without a partner, without parents, without children, gives a brilliant mi...

The title of “Girl Picture,” Finnish director Alli Haapasalo's charming coming-of-age film, is deliberately simple. It seems to say: here is a snapshot of what it is like to be a teenage woman, nothing more, nothing less. The film, which premiered at the World Dramatic Film Competition at Sundance, lives up to this promise by unraveling a conventional but hugely endearing story of three teenagers in Finland sorting out their feelings about love and sex. We meet Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff), an impulsive teaser, as she gets into a fight with a fellow student in gym class. Her sullenness is so off-putting that she might be lonely if it weren't for her best friend, Rönkkö, whose quirky intellect balances Mimmi's quick wit and short temper. Whether at school or the smoothie shop at the mall where they work, the pair are almost inseparable. But while Mimmi could bear to calm down, Rönkkö is looking to heat things up: despite her attraction to men, she has trouble having an orgasm with ...

 1. Bullet Train Release Date: 5 August 2022 In Bullet Train, Brad Pitt plays Ladybug, a hapless killer determined to do his job peacefully after too many concerts have gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with deadly adversaries from around the world, all with connected but conflicting goals, on the world's fastest train. The end of the line is just the beginning in this non-stop thrill ride through modern day Japan from David Leitch, the director of Deadpool 2. Let's hope the estimable Brad Pitt isn't giving us his leading man swan song with this strangely exhausting and overwhelmingly unfunny gonzo-violent action-comedy set on a Japanese bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto, with the film's frantically hyper tempo sped up. in tribute to the speed of the locomotive. This movie would be a horrible way for Pitt's acting career to fade and he's given lines like, "He follows me lik...

The Immaculate Room follows a seemingly perfect couple who take part in a psychological experiment that will reward them $5 million if they can stay in a perfectly white room for 50 days. But the room is much more than meets the eye, and a hidden past and private demons will reveal shameful truths they may not survive. The Immaculate Room, the latest film from Mukunda writer-director Michael Dewil (Vehicle 19), which sees Kate Bosworth and Emile Hirsch as a seemingly perfect couple embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to live in the title: having the opportunity to secure a multi-million dollar fortune. Of course, nothing is as simple as it seems, especially in the movies, and the suspenseful new trailer for the upcoming thriller makes it clear that this mind-boggling private experiment is bound to have its fair share of trouble on the inside. As seen in the promotion for this Screen Media Films/Chicken Soul release for Soul Entertainment, Mike (Hirsch) and Kate (Bosworth) mut...

The Invitation is easily one of the best, if not the best movie of the year so far and one of the best thrillers in years. Most of the credit is due to Karyn Kusama's careful and increasingly strict direction of the material. Starting with the opening. We open completely silent on Will (Logan Marshall-Greene) driving down a winding mountain road. As the sound slowly returns to the scene, we hear Kira (Emayatzu Corinealdi) telling him that they don't really have to go to the dinner they were invited to. They admitted to themselves that it was strange to be invited considering they hadn't seen their hosts in a couple of years. In one jump, Will hits a coyote and puts it out of its misery. Yet it shows in this superbly composed and claustrophobic shot before Theodore Shapiro's Hitchcockian score suddenly breaks the silence. The Invitation Plot Synopsis: “After the death of her mother and having no other known relatives, Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel) takes a DNA test…and discove...