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We Women Warriors (Tejiendo sabiduria)
We Women Warriors (Tejiendo sabiduria) is an independent documentary about three women striving and surviving in Colombia the best way they know how. Amid a war between insurgents, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), and local armed forces, the three women highlighted in this documentary figure there must be a better way of life. [...]
The Dark Knight Rises
On Friday, July 20, 2012, it all ended. By ‘it’ I mean Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. And by ‘end’ I mean he’s done with it. And to prove he’s done with it, the exceptional director has done everything he can to ensure no one could possibly, ever, in any way, make a continuation of his [...]
Trishna
Within Hindu culture, the peacock is considered a sacred animal, emblematic of eternal life and renewal. The male peacock in particular though also possesses a considerable degree of pride, strutting and displaying its vibrant plumage to attract a suitable mate. It is this conflicting battle between personal renewal and hyper vanity that dominates director Michael [...]
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beasts of the Southern Wild is a brilliant film, based around Hurricane Katrina in 2005 in New Orleans. It features a man named Wink, played by Dwight Henry, and his young daughter affectionately known as Hushpuppy, who is played by Quvenzhané Wallis, who are just living the life, even though their lives wouldn’t be anything [...]
The Amazing Spider-Man
In the build-up to its release, the most common complaint I tendered about this reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise pointed to the unnecessariness of a 2012 reenvisioning, given that the previous trilogy concluded a mere five years ago. This struck me as rather odd and ultimately led me to conclude that many filmgoers have, [...]
Beyond The Black Rainbow
The human eye can distinguish about 10 million colors. Photoreceptor cells known as cones allow for this color-vision, and the greater amount of cones an organism possesses the more variants of color it can process. Humans have three, butterflies five and tropical Mantis Shrimp quite astonishingly have 16. Known as sea locusts by ancient Assyrians, [...]
Prometheus
There was no way the Ridley Scott’s Prometheus would be as good or even better than 1979′s Alien. It’s been around for far too long and stewed in the public consciousness as a master exercise in suspense and a prime example of sci-fi and horror done right. Not since Blade Runner has Ridley Scott made [...]
Wallander: The Revenge
On Friday, June 1st, Music Box Films released “Wallander: The Revenge,” starring Krister Henriksson as the iconic and dogged police detective Kurt Wallander. This film is actually one of a series from Swedish television originally aired beginning in 2008 and co-developed for Swedish production by Henning Mankell. These films are very hard to find here [...]
Indie Game: The Movie
Indie Game: The Movie is one of the best films I’ve seen this year and an extremely fascinating documentary on video games. The video game industry has dramatically changed over the last few years and what was once a small casual hobby for boys and girls is now a world wide phenomenon that yields billions [...]
Marvel’s The Avengers
Opening tonight/today/tomorrow here in the U.S., this blockbuster superhero fantasy has already amassed megamillions at the box office overseas. The long awaited summer of smash is kicked off with this, the long-awaited super party of superheros. Probably as far back as the original Superman, yes the one starring Christopher Reeve, people began wondering when Hollywood [...]
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