In television, hospital shows are a dime a dozen. The rise of The Pitt, the unstoppable longevity of Grey's Anatomy, and a number other hospital-centric shows reveal no shortage of fascination with medicine and trauma. It's often rare in cinema unless its haunted wards or part of a protagonist's
Michel Franco has always been a controversial writer/director. The kind of filmmaker who invites conflict while insisting on tackling complex themes of sex, class, and social systems. Franco has always presented his works with a sort of distant approach, and Dreams is no different. A cold, distant,
For a film festival seemingly set on remaining apolitical - from the programmers to the directors to the celebrities - it's kind of ironic that both of the Berlin Film Festival's winners were politically supercharged. The Golden Bear - the festival's most prestigious award went to Yellow Letters,
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
Daemons of the Shadow Realm slows down the plot just a bit to plan things out in Ep. 21 "Zashiki-Warashi and Higashi Village". First to let Danji and Kiri the Zashiki-Warashi daemons give Yuru and Asa some important backstory to explain the past of Higashi Village. Then to let the twin siblings to
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
