Anytime a movie is exclusively advertised and released as an IMAX 3D feature, it may feel like a fancy gimmick to get more people to seeing the movie. One might think that this high-tech form of movie-making is just something…
Movie Review: ‘Dukhtar’
“Ma, what is this,” the little one asks. “This is from my wedding night.” “What is this spot?” “Blood.” “Whose blood?” “Mine. Your grandmother’s. Her grandmother’s.” “Did you hurt yourself badly?” Allah Rakhi (Samiya Mumtaz) has been hurt in more…
Ally’s Movie Review: Sleeping with Other People
Romantic comedies never seem to receive the same level of respect as other genre contemporaries. They’re dismissed as being “just chick flicks” or “too girly,” targeting a largely female demographic by studios that don’t feel the need to pander to…
Ally’s Movie Review: Black Mass
Evil can manifest itself in the most surprising ways, through people who look like they live happy and normal lives, to those individuals we held as heroes. Sometimes good people do horrible things. However, sometimes that evil is manifested in…
Movie Review: ’90 Minutes in Heaven’
Although it’s centered around a fascinating true story, 90 Minutes in Heaven is plagued by an uneventful and padded out two hours. That title is actually quite misleading, especially as someone who was unfamiliar with the real life story. Only…
Ally’s Movie Review: Breathe
Friendship can be intoxicating and in the case of Mélanie Laurent’s newest film Breathe, it can be dangerous. Charlie (Josephine Japy) lives an ordinary life as a French suburban teenager. Shy at school, and having to listen as her mother…