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Hanadi Elya makes her feature film debut with this candid dramedy that exposes the skeletons in the closet of three very different women, all connected to one man, whose passing brings about a lesson in compassion with marital throes at the forefront. The Palestinian-Jordanian Director is a champion for women-centric thought-pieces that shine a light on the issues facing marginalized communities and with her first feature film, she offers just that, with a strong female cast leading the charge.
Salma’s Home is screening at the Arab Film Festival
Bakri Hassan Omari is dead. Although Salma (Juliet Awad), his first wife, is left in the dark. The struggling baker, a picture of sadness, steadily hangs on to her craft with furious dedication, baking alone in the kitchen. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Lamia (Rania Kurdi), the deceased’s second wife and aspiring socialite, sits in on his...
Salma’s Home is screening at the Arab Film Festival
Bakri Hassan Omari is dead. Although Salma (Juliet Awad), his first wife, is left in the dark. The struggling baker, a picture of sadness, steadily hangs on to her craft with furious dedication, baking alone in the kitchen. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Lamia (Rania Kurdi), the deceased’s second wife and aspiring socialite, sits in on his...
- 11/12/2022
- by Leon Overee
- AsianMoviePulse
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The horror genre is no stranger to divisive endings, eliciting extreme reactions from audiences who find them either fittingly devastating or pointlessly brutal. Take 2007's "The Mist" as an example, where the conclusion is a hopelessly bleak one, underscoring the tragedy of the deaths that could have been completely avoided. Irrespective of how you feel about this Stephen King adaptation, the ending of Sam Raimi's "Drag Me To Hell" still manages to shock with its unflinching brutality.
Crafted as a morality tale, "Drag Me To Hell" subverts the conventional trope of a happy ending, where the protagonist is literally dragged into the bowels of hell when we least expect it. There is no attempt at justifying such a shocking fate, as Raimi cuts to the title card immediately, reiterating that he intended to remain true to the word of his title all along. This opens the avenues for various...
Crafted as a morality tale, "Drag Me To Hell" subverts the conventional trope of a happy ending, where the protagonist is literally dragged into the bowels of hell when we least expect it. There is no attempt at justifying such a shocking fate, as Raimi cuts to the title card immediately, reiterating that he intended to remain true to the word of his title all along. This opens the avenues for various...
- 11/12/2022
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
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Author Grady Hendrix described his second novel, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, as “Beaches meets The Exorcist.” It emphasized sentimentality and humor over scares, though it wasn’t afraid to inject a few frights. The adaptation tries to faithfully capture the events of the book within its constraints and format, but this rushed retelling struggles to worm its way into your heart.
It’s 1988. High school sophomores Abby (Elsie Fisher) and Gretchen (Amiah Miller) have been inseparable best friends since the fourth grade. Their tight bond gets tested after a disastrous slumber party leaves Gretchen behaving differently. She’s moodier, more aloof, and occasionally downright mean. Is it hormonal, social pressures, or something more? Abby begins to suspect that Gretchen’s been possessed.
Director Damon Thomas, working from Jenna Lamia’s screenplay, keeps an irreverent, breezy tone. Kitschy décor, terrible wigs, and popular decade-specific needle drops broadcast the ‘80s setting. Abby...
It’s 1988. High school sophomores Abby (Elsie Fisher) and Gretchen (Amiah Miller) have been inseparable best friends since the fourth grade. Their tight bond gets tested after a disastrous slumber party leaves Gretchen behaving differently. She’s moodier, more aloof, and occasionally downright mean. Is it hormonal, social pressures, or something more? Abby begins to suspect that Gretchen’s been possessed.
Director Damon Thomas, working from Jenna Lamia’s screenplay, keeps an irreverent, breezy tone. Kitschy décor, terrible wigs, and popular decade-specific needle drops broadcast the ‘80s setting. Abby...
- 9/30/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
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Stronger in concept than execution, “My Best Friend’s Exorcism” is, as fans of Grady Hendrix’s YA source novel already know, studded with entertaining ideas. But while there’s certainly enough talent involved, the film adaptation can’t seem to coalesce around the cleverness and insight that made Hendrix’s book a bestseller.
Though this is the first feature from director Damon Thomas, he’s had plenty of experience in sharp, female-focused screen horror, as a director and executive producer of “Killing Eve” and “Penny Dreadful.” The same goes for writer Jenna Lamia, making her movie debut after working on shows like “Awkward” and “Good Girls.”
There’s also the unfulfilled promise of lead Elsie Fisher (“Eighth Grade”), who is — through no fault of her own — miscast and misdirected as Abby, a self-conscious high school sophomore in 1988. Abby, who is alienated enough already, is broken-hearted about the fact that her...
Though this is the first feature from director Damon Thomas, he’s had plenty of experience in sharp, female-focused screen horror, as a director and executive producer of “Killing Eve” and “Penny Dreadful.” The same goes for writer Jenna Lamia, making her movie debut after working on shows like “Awkward” and “Good Girls.”
There’s also the unfulfilled promise of lead Elsie Fisher (“Eighth Grade”), who is — through no fault of her own — miscast and misdirected as Abby, a self-conscious high school sophomore in 1988. Abby, who is alienated enough already, is broken-hearted about the fact that her...
- 9/30/2022
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
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The beautiful and iconic city of Paris, France is well-known for art, fashion and culture, but beneath the city lies the not so pretty Paris catacombs, a network of tunnels that contain the remains of more than six million people. When basement walls collapsed around the Holy Innocents’ Cemetery, the residents of the cemetery were relocated to the underground catacombs sometime around 1786, and the tunnels were opened to the public in 1809. The 2014 horror film As Above, So Below actually obtained permission from the French authorities to film in the catacombs and tells the terrifying story of an archaeologist and her team who explore the tunnels with deadly results.
Set in Paris in the late eighties, the new Belgian film Deep Fear follows a group of students who decide to celebrate their graduation with a trip to the catacombs. Written by Nicolas Tackian and directed by Grégory Beghin (Losers Revolution), Deep...
Set in Paris in the late eighties, the new Belgian film Deep Fear follows a group of students who decide to celebrate their graduation with a trip to the catacombs. Written by Nicolas Tackian and directed by Grégory Beghin (Losers Revolution), Deep...
- 9/25/2022
- by Michelle Swope
- DailyDead
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