The Silent Run – The Quiet Burden of Choices
Directed by Marta Bergman, The Silent Run is a tense, intimate drama that explores the heavy cost of human decisions. The story follows Sara and Adam, a young couple risking everything to secure a better future for themselves and their two-year-old daughter, Klara. Their journey of illegal migration is not just a physical crossing of […]
Arab Cinema Rising: From Local To Global – A Masterclass
Attending the Arab Cinema Rising: From Local to Global masterclass at the 46th Cairo International Film Festival was like stepping into the engine room of Arab cinema — a space where stories, craft, and strategy collide in the quest for global resonance, and what it truly means for Arab films and filmmakers to transcend borders […]
Complaint No. 713317 – Comedy, Finally Defrosted!
Magdy and Sama, a retired middle-class couple living in a modest apartment in Maadi, face an all-too-common problem: their aging freezer has broken down. A simple call for repair, which should have been straightforward, quickly spirals into a Kafkaesque ordeal. Technicians arrive and leave without fixing the problem, bureaucracy multiplies, and repeated failures chip away […]
Once Upon A Time In Gaza – Life despite Death!
Once Upon a Time in Gaza is a darkly comic yet haunting portrait of life under siege. Set in Gaza shortly after 2007, the film follows Yahya, a young student, and Osama, a falafel shop owner with a hidden side, as they navigate the chaos of crime, corruption, and survival. Through its absurdist humor, the […]
The Long Walk – Long Awaited!
Fifty teenage boys step onto an endless road, each representing a different U.S. state, governed by one brutal rule: keep walking, or you’re out permanently. The event, celebrated and televised as national entertainment, blurs the line between patriotism and cruelty. There are no breaks, no rest, and no real prize except survival. As miles turn […]
Your Host – A Capitalizing Trial!
A single room, flickering lights, a broken camera feed and no escape. That’s the world you’re thrown into when you first step inside Your Host. From the opening shot you sense that nervous breathing, the smell of sterilised metal and the uneasy thrill of being both spectator and victim. Director D.W. Medoff presents a brutal […]
The Naked Gun – Just if you thought this genre is long gone!
After years away from the force, Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) is pulled back into duty when a global conspiracy threatens to unleash chaos. But with Drebin, disaster is never far behind — his attempts to save the world only create new layers of absurdity. From high-speed chases that go hilariously wrong to undercover missions […]
Highest 2 Lowest – Indeed!
Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest reworks Ed McBain’s King’s Ransom through a New York prism and keeps Akira Kurosawa’s moral heartbeat close at hand. The surface story is simple: David King (Denzel Washington), a music-industry tycoon, faces a kidnapping that forces him to weigh money, reputation, and conscience. Lee stages this as a moral geography—glittering […]
One Battle After Another – One Breath At A Time!
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the few contemporary filmmakers whose voice carries across very different films: the ensemble chaos of Boogie Nights and Magnolia, the domestic tension of Phantom Thread, the paranoid tenderness of The Master. His work borrows structural daring from Altman and moral intensity from Scorsese, yet it always feels unmistakably his […]
Weapons – A film that’s not low on ammunition
Set in the small town of Maybrook, Weapons begins with a nightmare: nearly all of teacher Justine Gandy’s (Julia Garner) students vanish overnight. Only one boy, Alex (Cary Christopher), remains—a haunting detail that throws Justine into the crosshairs of the community, the media, and her own alcoholism. From here, the film unfolds across six chapters, […]