Paskalis Damar

LATEST ARTICLES ( 589 )

• Social Class, Weird Diets & Mickey 17 (2025)

  

  Read Time:7 Minute, 2 Second It takes a long six years for Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to his Best Picture-winning Parasite to hit theaters. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2025 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Monkey (2025) Is a Rube Goldberg Machine of Horror

  

  Read Time:6 Minute, 24 Second Straight from the sleeper hit Longlegs, Osgood Perkins immediately jumps to work on Stephen King’s short story that allegedly... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2025 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Weight of Judgment in Conclave (2024)

  

  Read Time:6 Minute, 50 Second In the early days of his papacy, Pope Francis famously remarked when asked about his stance on LGBT issues: “Who am I to judge?”... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2025 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Falters

  

  Read Time:6 Minute, 4 Second In the post-Endgame era, there has been a growing sentiment that Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films have become more like... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2025 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Controlled Chaos of Nosferatu (2024)

  

  Read Time:7 Minute, 27 Second F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens is a story of the undead—figuratively and literally. Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2025 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Companion (2025) Asks About Dating Culture

  

  Read Time:7 Minute, 9 Second The best way to enjoy Drew Hancock’s feature directorial debut, Companion, is to know as little as possible about the... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2025 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 1 Kakak 7 Ponakan (2025) is Abundant

  

  Read Time:7 Minute, 30 Second During the 2024 JAFF, director Yandy Laurens frequently mentioned Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows as one of the films that... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2025 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wolf Man (2025) Bites Less Than It Can Chew

  

  Read Time:7 Minute, 40 Second Traditional horror has been around for decades, reaching its peak in a bygone era but still finding fresh breakthroughs now and... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2025 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Reflecting on Films That Got Me Through 2024

  

  Read Time:8 Minute, 12 Second Each year, I focus on crossing films off my ever-growing watchlist, imagining the mix of joy and frustration that comes with... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2025 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Reflecting on the TV Shows That Got Me Through 2024

  

  Read Time:9 Minute, 27 Second Some might argue that so-called prestige TV has reached its peak and is now on a slow decline. That might not be entirely wrong,... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2025 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Politics Is Personal in The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)

  

  Read Time:5 Minute, 29 Second Most synopses of Mohammad Rasoulof‘s The Seed of the Sacred Fig highlight it as a story about a family torn apart by a lost gun. Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2024 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Love Unlike in K-Dramas (2024) Is Not Unlike K-Dramas

  

  Read Time:5 Minute, 39 Second “K-Dramas saved my life,” said Meira Anastasia (co-writing Ernest Prakasa‘s Imperfect) during the post-screening Q A in JAFF 2024. Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2024 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Longlegs (2024) Speaks the Devil’s Tongue

  

  Read Time:7 Minute, 1 Second For a film about a serial killer hunt, Longlegs exudes a bit too much bizarreness. We catch a glimpse of the titular killer right... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2024 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Civil War (2024) Portrays an Unlikely Universal War

  

  Read Time:6 Minute, 54 Second With the recent rise of societal polarization and increased political tension in the US — especially during the Trump era, a film... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2024 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers (2024) Makes Cinema Horny Again

  

  Read Time:7 Minute, 24 Second Tennis means the world to Tashi Donaldson, née Duncan (Zendaya), a former tennis prodigy who became a coach and manager for her... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2024 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Three Hearts of Shogun (2024)

  

  Read Time:10 Minute, 14 Second Set in the pivotal moments of the Japanese Sengoku era, Shōgun sets the plot in motion ironically with the death of the last... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2024 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Heat-Seeking Ghost of Abusive Past in Baby Reindeer (2024)

  

  Read Time:6 Minute, 12 Second It must have been excruciatingly painful to relive the traumatic experience of being abused for a long time; let alone turn it int... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2024 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Dua Hati Biru (2024) Shouldn’t Just Be a Sequel

  

  Read Time:6 Minute, 41 Second When fiction ends, everything embedded in it should technically end, too. All merits (or the lack of it), the characters, their... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2024 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• All Hell Breaks Loose in Joko Anwar’s Siksa Kubur (2024)

  

  Read Time:8 Minute, 30 Second In Grave Torture (2012), Joko Anwar ushers audiences into the realm beyond the living through minimum dialogues and a narrative... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2024 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Reflecting on the Best Films of 2023

  

  Read Time:8 Minute, 54 Second This blog was still fresh when I first started making the first entry of SINEKDOKS’s Best of series. The date was December 31 and... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2024 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES