Starting with the absolute respect for the need of the spectator to experience even indirectly the theatrical experience, in the unprecedented conditions that gave birth to the pandemic, the extremely realistic theater of Vassilis Bismbikis and the Cartel Group meets the codes of cinema. The camera in the hand of the director of photography Dimitris Katsaitis becomes the eye of the spectator who closely watches the heroes of the story. The story of Lenos and Vassilis, the heroes of John Steinbeck's masterpiece "People and Mice", as presented in the adaptation of the Cartel Group, comes to life again, adapted to the modern Greek reality. «OF MICE AND MEN Copyright ©1937 by John Steinbeck Copyright © renewed 1965 by John Steinbeck»
Disney has kept its word and allowed a new generation of Black and/or African storytellers to tell their own original stories. The question remains, will the public keep their word?
'Rag Tag' encompasses the diversity within the African Diaspora by showing London Nigerian men learning to regulate their emotions while navigating love and societal pressures.
Years before Mexican director, Alfonso Cuaron, was winning Academy Awards for movies like Gravity (2013) and Roma(2018), he directed a small, intimate film about two best friends who decide to embark on an improvised road trip to spend time with an older, attractive woman who miraculously agrees to go with them. Y tu Mamá También is a deep journey into the raw sexuality and friendship of the young protagonists, as well as a subtle social and political commentary on Mexico at the time.
A family comedy that combines fantasy and normal school life.
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
Spiral could easily spawn new sequels and will most likely churn a decent profit. Is it a good Saw film? Absolutely. Could it have been revolutionary though? Also yes.
