Sharp, cynical, and stylish. Gourav, Rao, and Chopra are all good in this, and the best parts deal with the layered dynamic that forms between them. Ashok (Rao) and Pinky (Chopra) don’t want to see themselves as masters, with Balram (Gourav) as their devoted serf, but easily and naturally treat him that way when it’s most convenient. When Balram describes Ashok to another driver as “a good man,” the other scoffs: “He’s a rich man.” Wealth relies on a certain innate…

The people in this town used to look up to me. Even the adults. I was so far ahead of the game and... one day I just woke up behind.

2020 Ranked: boxd.it/91AOq

Goddamnit, this was great. The Kid Detective is one of those rare movies that knows exactly what it wants to be. Even more rare, it executes on what it wants to be so well that it actually becomes what it desired. It is a brilliant amalgamation of mystery,…

No, I'm not joking with that rating. This movie was bugnuts crazy and I'd watch it again right now if I could.

Not since Mandy have I been so surprised by a film taking C-movie ingredients and going wild with them. This isn't as good as Mandy (because hardly anything is), but like with that film I left the cinema with a big grin on my face.

The movie hooked me right away with a one-two-three punch. First a hilarious…

Really enjoyed this piece of fan fiction because it does a couple of things shockingly well: 

First, despite this obviously being adapted from a one room play it’s shot incredibly dynamically. Wonderful framing, great slow push ins and micro camera movements to keep any given scene of two to four people standing in a room (or a car or a hallway or a roof) still genuinely interesting to watch. Even the artsy shots circling around behind the action or through…

Kino / Zeitgeist Virtual Cinema.

The first great documentary of 2021. An often poetic, occasionally upsetting, and consistently thought-provoking vérité portrait of the Enache family - Dad, Mom, and nine children -- who are obliged to transition (often traumatically) from a life off the grid to an existence within the 21st-century EU system. The film often evokes the recent Macedonian beekeeping doc 'Honeyland', mostly because director Radu Ciorniciuc similarly avoids didacticism about traditionalism vs. modernism (among many, many other themes).…

hi friends! the coolest thing has happened! i have my first freelance piece up on the letterboxd editorial site!!!! this interview was so fun and i'm so grateful!!!
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There’s a subtle musicality central to the way Ekwa Msangi carries herself. She finds melodies in her words: “You hum the ‘m’,” she says when asked how to pronounce her last name. “Mmm-sangi.” And perhaps to a more subconscious degree, she speaks with rhythm, too: “I do think, and I know,…