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
With a bleak style reminiscent of Hollywood heist films (at least the good ones), Seth McTigue’s Take the Night gets in your head pretty easily. This is an
Love in Kilnerry has every chance of being a hit. It’s an off-beat comedy with enough cliches to make you remember some sleeper hits about a town resurging
There are two stories in Potato Dreams of America. First, there’s a comedy about the Soviet Union awakening from a long nightmare of repression, and one boy discovering
Films by Edward John Drake can be recognized from light years away. This is the filmmaker that casts Bruce Willis and other relatively known actors almost all the
