Through her latest short films, “The Stand” and “Little Bird,” Vietnamese-American filmmaker Oanh-Nhi Nguyen pulls focus to the hardships faced…
Browsing: World Cinema
There’s something insidious about the way “Stranger Eyes” draws you in. Not with shocks or whiplash reveals, but with a…
“Souley from Paris!” That loose, friendly greeting comes early and often in Boris Lojkine’s tense pressure-cooker “Souleymane’s Story” (2024), but…
Best known in the mainstream as the free-spirited girl’s girl Miranda in the “Bridget Jones” franchise—as well as for her…
Despite featuring a villain who shares a similar modus operandi to the antagonist of another Ajay Devgn home production “Shaitaan”…
Shrirenu Tripathi (aka Shri, played by R Madhavan) is a Sanskrit teacher whose love life is as dead as the…
For the longest time, Philippine cinema has danced around certain subjects; tiptoeing past them, softening their impact, or ignoring them…
There are few things that pull me in faster than films that engage, head-on, with culture, history, and the ways…
To truly understand the stories that have shaped us, to re-enter the cinematic landscapes that once captured our imaginations, and…
Best described as “Girls Will Be Girls” but from a Māori perspective, screenwriter and cartoonist Maddie Dai’s feature length outing…