So I’m back in one piece from the opening weekend of the Dublin International Film Festival. My sister had lured me up to the capital for Women Make Film, a 14-hour documentary in five sittings written and directed by Mark Cousins. Cousins was there to introduce the first two installments and share his passion for…
Korean director Bong Joon Ho made history at the 92nd Academy Awards when his movie “Parasite” won the Best Picture Oscar, the first foreign-language film ever to win. While the film’s title suggests it might belong to the horror or end of days genre, Parasite is a universal story of rich vs poor. The…
Based on Sarfraz Manzoor’s book “Greetings from Bury Park – Race. Religion. Rock ‘N’ Roll.”, Blinded by Light is a coming of age movie with a racial twist. Javed, a first-generation Pakistani immigrant, takes teenage angst to a whole new level. It’s Britain in the 1980s as Javed juggles being a teenager within a traditional…
Joker Movie Review Directed and produced by Todd Phillips, Joker is based loosely on DC Comics characters with Joaquin Phoenix in the title role. This is not a movie for all the family unlike the bottomless pit of blockbusters coming from the Marvel franchise. While the setting is crime-ridden Gotham City and the Wayne family…
