Paskalis Damar
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A Season With: RIG 45 (2018 – 2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins There has been a mysterious death on an offshore oil rig in North Sea. The oil company sends someone to investigate the event for... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Shirley (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins In the recent years, Elisabeth Moss has transformed herself into a beast of an actor. Her sharp acting keeps pushing the... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Nomadland (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 4 mins “I’m not homeless; I’m just houseless,” Frances McDormand’s Fern explains her situation—or more accurately, her way of life to her... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Wet Season (2019) – Luang Prabang Film Festival 2020
*Estimated Read Time: 4 mins Back from the Camera d’Or 2013 winner, Ilo Ilo, Singaporean director, Anthony Chen returns with a similarly bittersweet, yet... Read more
Posted on 15 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Another Round / Druk (2020) – Denmark’s Oscars 2021 Submission
*Estimated Read Time: 4 mins Under Thomas Vinterberg’s direction—also co-writing the screenplay with Tobias Lindholm—Mads Mikkelsen is another unhappy teacher... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: The Long Walk (2019) – Luang Prabang Film Festival 2020
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Laotian first and only female director, Mattie Do, rewards those who patiently follows the tangled story in her latest feature,... Read more
Posted on 13 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Mulan (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 4 mins Disney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan is probably the boldest move the studio has taken in the recent years. Read more
Posted on 12 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Sound of Metal (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Let’s take our time to appreciate and celebrate Riz Ahmed’s prodigious talent. In the same year, the British actor and rapper has... Read more
Posted on 12 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: The Call / 콜 (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins There’s a mysterious phone that can connect people from different time and space. Will it do more good than harm? Or otherwise? Read more
Posted on 11 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Mank (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 4 mins David Fincher’s new film, Mank, is a behind-the-scene drama about the sacred writing of Citizen Kane. Read more
Posted on 10 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Extra Ordinary (2019)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins To simply classify Enda Loughman and Mike Ahern’s full-feature debut, Extra Ordinary, as a banal, non-specified, ordinary horror... Read more
Posted on 09 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Run (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 4 mins After the sleeper hit, Searching (2018), everyone seems to look forward to what Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian bring for their nex... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Corpus Christi (2019)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Corpus Christi, written by 27-year-old Mateusz Pacewicz, probes a thought-provoking clerical question: what makes someone... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Cleaners (2019)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Glenn Barit makes a visually ambitious anthology about the life of high schoolers in a provincial Filipino town in Cleaners. Read more
Posted on 03 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Just 6.5 (2019)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Peyman Moaadi (A Separation, The Night Of) stars alongside Navid Muhammadzadeh (Life and a Day) in this Iranian crime story about... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: John Denver Trending (2019)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins When the internet was first introduced in the Philippines in 1994, nobody would have thought that, at least two decades later, its... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: My Extraordinary Summer with Tess (2019)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins It’s a summer holiday in a sea-surrounded Dutch island. A 10-year-old boy, Sam (Sonny van Utteren), overthinking the possibility... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Roh / Soul (2019)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Unlike most horrors from the regions, Malaysia’s submission for the 93rd Academy Awards, Roh (a.k.a. Read more
Posted on 27 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Charlatan (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Most people in the modern era might not have heard the name of Jan Mikolášek, a renowned herbal and faith healer from the former... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Martin Eden (2019)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Pietro Marcello’s adaptation of Jack London’s 1909 novel, Martin Eden, exudes retro-beauty of Southern Italy’s labor circles, even... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES