Netflix’s ‘Last Summer’: Turkish Coming-of-Age Romance Tells An Age-Old Story in A New Way
Photo: ‘Last Summer’/Netflix There is no ignoring the fact that a film constructed around the seaside summer misadventures of an apprehensive lovesick teenager attempting to come into their own and form a meaningful connection with a flirtatious yet distant...
French Movie ‘Meander’: A Tense Sci-Fi Horror Springs Up Like A Trap To Capture And Torture The Imagination
Photo: ‘Meander’/Gravitas Ventures Officially, the closest I’ve ever come to being buried alive is watching director Mathieu Turi’s ‘Meander’. A suffocating and claustrophobic experience, Turi’s new sci-fi horror is a puzzling...
Ethiopian Cinematic Gem – ‘Running Against The Wind’: An Idealistic Tale of Two Friends
Photo: ‘Running Against The Wind’ In ‘Running Against The Wind’, childhood best friends Solomon (Mikias Wolde) and Abdi (Ashenafi Nigusu) reunite after years apart. Though it’s marketed as a sports drama, the film tries to venture into other genres like...
‘The War Next Door’: Two Households, One Feud, and Several Misunderstandings
Photo: ‘The War Next Door’/Netflix When a lower-class family wins an unexpected raffle to a mansion in the best part of town, their newly acquired neighbors heavily object to having their bubbles popped into reality. Written and created by Carolina Rivera,...
