Some of the best horror movies deal with familiar things. Examples from five classics are: a motel, a flock of birds, a midnight swim, a fly, and a chain saw. In each case, the filmmaker takes something we know and maybe even use and gives it a little twist. This brings us to “La Voix,”…
read more →Like so many news stories, war reports occupy us for a few minutes and then fade away. Left behind—in the words of filmmaker Nico Piro—”are the forgotten victims of the forgotten crisis.” Piro’s mini-doc “Today I Will Live” is an antidote to the forgetting. Contrasting shots of a pleasant pizza meal with images of patients…
read more →Brian Vowles’ “Robot Attack” (2018) demonstrated that visual effects can play a significant role in mobile moviemaking. Now, with “Gary,” the Canadian animator takes mobile VFX to a higher level both technically and narratively. What makes this horror comedy work so well is the total integration of story and visuals. And we should not overlook…
read more →When we look back, we’ll remember 2020 as the year of COVID-19. Since January, the coverage of the pandemic has been wide, deep, and incessant. Is there anything else to say about it until the vaccine arrives? “Jack’s Story” answers in the affirmative. Produced by celebrated mobile journalist Philip Bromwell, this RTÉ report enables Jack,…
read more →“The Lost Pen” is a moving docudrama about journalists pushed out of their native lands. The filmmaker Beraat Gökkuş has firsthand knowledge of the subject. A Turkish director and journalist, he has lived in exile in Paris since 2016. The fourteen-and-a-half minute, single-shot film will be distributed in 2022, but the trailer does a fine…
read more →The essence of the Hero’s journey is the valuable gift that the protagonist brings back for the rest of us. While the hero often has astonishing experiences—think of Odysseus meeting the Sirens and the Cyclops—such events aren’t required as we see in Yasuyuki Kubota’s “Old Man and Tokyo.” The old man in this movie wins…
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