Polite Society: Bollywood meets Scott Pilgrim!
In a landscape where movies seem like they’ve been filmed on a flip phone with the lights off, there’s an undeniable joy in the vibrant colour palette and bombastic visuals alone.
In a landscape where movies seem like they’ve been filmed on a flip phone with the lights off, there’s an undeniable joy in the vibrant colour palette and bombastic visuals alone.
Sadiq crafts a carefully paced and deceptively uneventful narrative that is paced by the mounting suffocation the characters feel under the pressures of their environment.
The music scene of Los Angeles in the 70s is fertile ground for aesthetics and storytelling, but the show’s attempt to capture the sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll underbelly of the era falls short.
Marcella Cytrynowicz is the latest director to try her hand at the genre with American Cherry, a moody, tragic love story that follows a pair of troubled teens in small-town America.
When Netflix announced that Tim Burton, maestro of all things kooky and spooky, would be at the helm of Wednesday, a modern day take on the adventures of the stone-faced eldest daughter of the Addams Family, it seemed like a match made in heaven.
But was it?