In indie cinema there’s a very good opportunity to address themes in a way that wouldn’t be accepted in studio films. Comedy is a large canvas, where almost
You have heard of Fernando Grostein Andrade before. He’s the Brazilian filmmaker who shook powerful corporate buildings with the release of 2011’s Breaking Taboos. In this film he
In Who are the Marcuses?, a donation of half a billion dollars starts many conversations. Surely, the origin of such a large amount of money is important enough
The story that’s ultimately told in Steven B. Esparza’s Pistoleros: Death, Drugs and Rock N’ Roll, is one you have probably heard before. Promising musicians meet temptation and
In Anoop Rangi’s Arranged Marriage, there are several scenes during which you will feel the need to press stop for a few minutes. Not because of the violence,
There’s a specific scene in Ask Me To Dance that translates the awkward feeling I got with its shallow and repetitive representation of bad dates, love quests, and
On the surface, Richard Wong’s The Valet feels too much like something we’ve seen before. Ugly, poor guy who meets someone beautiful, falls in love and that’s it,
Using World War II as a context for a romance film isn’t easy. You have to balance every single dramatic element without disregarding the absolute horror of war
In today’s film industry, films that have little to no social commentary are unusual. It seems we have forgotten films can be a form of entertainment without addressing
Warren Pereira’s outstanding documentary Tiger 24 allows for very uncomfortable questions to be asked. Without disregarding the ecological aspect of the production itself, the director lends a hand
In the curiously small catalog of post COVID-19 films, We are gathered here today stands out as an experiment that works well due to the simplistic characterization of
Let’s not kid ourselves. Sunspot is a product of passion that’s being released during a social momentum that seems improbable to absorb a film of this nature with
