Nowhere
When the Waves of Hype Began to Rise In late 2023, before Nowhere even hit Netflix, the buzz around the Spanish survival thriller was already building like a storm at sea. The teasers promised something intimate yet overwhelming: one woman, one container, one endless ocean. Viewers in Spain saw it as a homegrown thriller that […]
Look Away
The Glass That Would Not Be Quiet The teenage years are marked with many kinds of battles – the internal almost emotional turmoil of being invisible, adamant about fitting in at all cost, and so on. Look Away, a movie created in 2018 and directed by Assaf Bernstein, is a psychological thriller whick expands on […]
American Kamasutra
When Desire Meets Destiny: The reception of first film American Kamasutra (2018) attempted to blend eroticism with emotion and was rather successful at it. On its surface, the film examines the experience of Maya, a young Indian woman in New York, who is exploring love, lust, and ambition. Beneath the sensual visuals and melodramatic tension, […]
Elles
When the Camera Stopped Rolling, Life Changed Forever The very first European cinema that came to life with the European film ‘Elles’ was the remarkable work with this particular movie starring Juliette Binoche. The movie was more than just European cinema. It exceeded the boundaries of European cinema. It was right in the year of […]
First Love
When First Love Released Even with the barrage of superhero movies and adrenaline-fueled dramas, the First Love Movie came out in 2022 and felt like a soft tune slicing through the cacophony. Directed by A.J. Edwards, the film set intention on rekindling the simplistic notion of how breakable yet crucial young love can be. Even […]
LelleBelle
When Curiosity Turned Into Anticipation In the year 2010, within the confines of the imagination of the film industry, LelleBelle was a film that engulfed the attention of many. It was a Dutch film that expressed themes of self-discovery, sexuality, and art, thus, it sparked interest and attention within the continent of Europe alongside international […]
Infernal
A Horror That Tried to Break the Mold. Infernal was released in 2015 with the promise of being a different type of found-footage horror. Directed by Bryan Coyne, the story follows a young couple, Nathan and Sophia, who moved to a new house and started recording their life only to find their daughter, Imogene, doing […]
You Are Not My Mother
An Indelible Catastrophe When You Are Not My Mother came out, it wasn’t marketed as yet another supernatural series filled with suspense. It was presented as something inherently and unmistakably Irish, steeped in folklore yet starkly contemporary. The narrative of a distressed mother who starts behaving oddly after a disappearance became a fixation for the […]
Badnaam Gali
The impact of a small film opened up a Pandora box of issues – starting with a discussion on surrogacy. The film Badnaam Gali premiered on ZEE5 streaming service on 2019. The film was a comedy about a surrogate mother and a small-town husband. The film was starring Patralekha and Divyenndu Sharma. The film was […]
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Prior History to the Beginning of Blue Flame Exhibition There had been rumors that Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Colour was to be showcased at Cannes and for some reason the energy was nice but also slightly puzzling. The film was largely sensationalized as bold and groundbreaking, a love story more than willing to […]