Sentimental Value: Priceless Sentiments, Paid in Silence
The premise of Sentimental Value is, on the surface, simple and quietly familiar. A father returns. Two daughters stand before him. A house full of memories waits to be reopened. Gustav, a once celebrated film director who has long been absent from his children’s lives, comes back after the death of their mother, carrying with […]
Al Sada Al Afadel (The Gentlemen): A Tidy Orchestrated Chaos!
Al Sada Al Afadel opens with the death of a father in a small Egyptian village, and almost immediately the house of mourning turns into something else. Sons try to look steady. Cousins hover with calculations behind their eyes. Neighbors arrive claiming prayer, while clearly hunting for stories. As condolences pile up, secrets follow. Old […]
Train Dreams: A New Trail to a Familiar Place!
Train Dreams is the kind of film that makes you wish you hadn’t watched it at home. Not because Netflix is the wrong place for it, but because this movie feels too big for a TV. It feels like it needs a massive screen where trees can tower over you, where silence has weight, and […]
Die, My Love: Intensity & Disconnect
Die My Love follows Grace, a once-driven writer and new mother who moves with her husband to a remote rural town. They hope the quiet will fix what exhaustion and ambition burned out. Instead, the silence turns into a mirror she can’t escape. Motherhood feels like a sealed room closing in. The film pulls the […]
The Running Man: A New Run At An Old Idea!
Stephen King has been on a surprisingly strong cinematic streak lately. Not just in terms of how many adaptations are coming out, but in how well they’re actually working. These films aren’t something audiences are sitting through out of loyalty anymore people are genuinely responding to them. The Running Man arrives right in the middle […]
Wake Up Dead Man – It’s time for drama to take a stand!
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery makes it clear that this franchise refuses to stay in one place. It’s not trying to repeat the breezy satire of the first film or the loud spectacle of the second. Instead, Rian Johnson takes us somewhere darker, more reflective, and more personal. This third entry feels […]
Roofman: The Toys “R” Not Ours!
Some stories sound too wild to be real, yet the moment the movie starts, you feel the truth behind them. Roofman is exactly that kind of film. It kicks off with this strange mix of “there’s no way this happened” and “wait… this actually did.” Right from the start, you can tell you’re not watching […]
Jay Kelly: The Eyes That Outruns the Journey
Jay Kellyfollows an aging movie star whose tightly managed life starts to fall apart when he’s finally pushed to face the emotions he’s been running from for years. Ron, Jay’s longtime manager, fixer, and basically the guy who cleans up every emotional mess Jay avoids joins him on a sudden trip across Europe. Jay is […]
Bugonia: Aliens! Be Gone!
Yorgos Lanthimos’s cinema has always carried a theatrical temperature—composed frames, controlled performances, and a sly, unnerving humor that folds reality into something slightly off-axis. Bugonia doesn’t abandon these signatures, but there’s something new in the air this time. The dystopian undertone that seems to follow Lanthimos wherever he goes regardless of whether he’s in the […]
Who Owns Ancient Egypt on Screen?
Ancient Egypt has always lived at the intersection of fact and imagination. For us Egyptians, it’s not just history it’s part of who we are. Yet when we look at how the world has portrayed our civilization, it’s hard not to feel a mix of pride and frustration then when you think about it, it’s […]