Paskalis Damar

LATEST ARTICLES ( 570 )

• Review: Beginning (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 4 mins Beginning starts with flame that burns down a Jehovah’s Witness community’s Kingdom Hall in a small, provincial town in Georgia. Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Shiva Baby (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins While family gatherings, in general, might be very overwhelming and anxiety-inducing for some people, Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: She Dies Tomorrow (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Amy Seimetz’s new visionary story, She Dies Tomorrow, is nothing less enigmatic than her previous foray, Sun Don’t Shine (2012). Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Jasmila Žbanic’s Quo vadis, Aida? presents one of the most horrifying war crimes in history, the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre—where mor... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: One Careful Owner / El Inconveniente (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Adapted from Juan Carlos Rubio’s acclaimed play in Spain, 100 Metros Cuadrados—in which the playwright also co-writes with Bernabé... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Wolfwalkers (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins With The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and The Breadwinner all nominated in various Oscars seasons, Irish animation studio,... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Kajillionaire (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Welcome to Miranda July’s idiosyncratic come-back with another quirky bandwagon, Kajillionaire, exactly nine years after the... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Sweat (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins In Magnus von Horn’s Sweat, newcomer Magdalena Kolesnik breaks into the movie frenetically, portraying Sylwia Zajac—an Instagram... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Proxima (2019)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins It’s been awhile since we saw Eva Green portrays a humane character—an ordinary woman with feelings and emotions—unlike her recent... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Mogul Mowgli (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins A New York-based, British-Pakistani rapper, Zed (Riz Ahmed), is about to embark in his first world tour after years of struggle fro... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson, Baywatch) portrays Margaret, an American expat living in Japan. Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Stephen Hillenburg’s The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) was supposed to be the series finale for its third season (and... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Color Out of Space (2019)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Richard Stanley is no strange figure for mind-bending B-movies inspired by classic sci-fi literature. His last tenure, the... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Season With: Humans (2015 – 2018) – Season 1, 2 & 3

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Humans, created by Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley—based on a Swedish series, Real Humans—explores a futuristic world where human... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Season With: Serigala Terakhir (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 4 mins Over 10 years after the release of Upi Avianto’s gangster blockbuster, Serigala Terakhir (a.k.a. The Last Wolf), a sequel in the... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: His House (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins In His House, Sudanese refugee couple flee their war-torn home country and, against all odds, manage to cross the sea—leaving the... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Rebecca (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins To step onto the path that Alfred Hitchcock had once walked into—in a hard fought creative battle against David Selznick—is indeed ... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Nocturne (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins A unfairly fate-rigged sibling rivalry has forced twin sisters, Juliet (Sydney Sweeney from The Handmaid’s Tale and Sharp Object)... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Season With: Yowis Ben: The Series (2020) – Season 1

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Director Fajar Nugros and YouTube personality turned actor, Bayu Skak, return to expand their double sleeper hits, Yowis Ben and... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Story of Kale: When Someone’s in Love (2020)

  

  *Estimated Read Time: 4 mins “Happiness is a personal responsibility,” Kale (Ardhito Pramono) shares his life advice to Awan (Rachel Amanda) at the edge of thei... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES