Tag: Hollywood

Backrooms Movie Review: The Rooms Inside Us

Backrooms. What a strange film. What a uniquely unsettling experience. You’ll probably ask if I was satisfied? But conventional satisfaction requires a film that falls within a familiar framework. Backrooms is trying to be something else entirely. It asks whether you can surrender yourself to its distortions: in storytelling, in visuals, in sound. It aims…

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Obsession Movie Review: Love Loses Limits

Before we sink into the many layers of Obsession, let me get my superlatives out of the way first: WHAT A FILM! What an ingenious premise. What a climax. What incredible performances from the lead actors. Inde Navarrette is tremendous as Nikki, of course, but how good is Michael Johnston as Bear? Also, did I…

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Avatar: Fire and Ash Review: Beautiful, bleak, but barely evolving

For a while, it’s so good to be back in the Avatar world, to surrender to the astonishing visual joys that James Cameron offers. Each moment, each shot feels so textured, so dense with detail, that it’s so easy to forget all of this isn’t real. Skin, flora, water… all of this feels so tangible….

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Searching is my Following: Anish Chaganty

“The media and Hollywood usually portrays technology in negative light. Searching isn’t one such indictment. Yes, technology can alienate, but it can also connect. It can make us hope, it can make us love… and maybe, it can bring a dad and daughter together — like in Searching.”