Mirage (2018) Netflix
2020-10-13
Oriol Paulo specializes in middle-of-the-road thrillers despite incidental facade and roadside attractions.Continue Reading
The Worthy (2016) Netflix
2020-05-04
While no one here at Cinemaholism HQ can attest for certain what the first Emirati film in history is, we can definitely assure what the first film from the Emirates to get reviewed here is.Continue Reading
Elle (2016)
2020-04-15
Where Hollywood actresses fear to tread, you may see Huppert running a hopscotch tournament.Continue Reading
Dogtooth (2009)
2018-01-04
Whenever viewers lament verbal exposition as too on the nose, overly oratory, or detrimental to pacing you’re easily reminded of the alternative; the type which develops through action. Though you’d be wiser than to accept as better exposition anything merely meeting the requirement of being “other.” Buenos DiazContinue Reading
Days of Grace (2011)
2017-08-11
The oft-imitated Pulp Fiction endures to the tune of two decades at a minimum when taking in Days of Grace. It’s not an imitation but the influence looms nonetheless. Of this charge, it is absolved. Buenos DiazContinue Reading
Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (2000)
2017-07-31
The employment of a narrative of diptychs, title cards, and the artistic decision to shoot in monocolor alone would have vaulted Sang-soo Hong’s ode to cinema halfway to realization without factoring in his recurrent and self-referential character stocks. Screenwriters and filmmakers. Such archetypes while not constants in his work stillContinue Reading
Neon Bull (2015)
2017-07-14
Two Girls One Cup was after all a Brazilian stunt if urban legend is anything to go by anymore. Not that I’ve tried, but apparently your gag reflex will instinctively kick in for the act to be attempted in full. So much for scat and skeet being just one vowelContinue Reading
El Topo (1970)
2017-03-23
“Credit the sixties for giving us the acid version of strip, jazz and now the Western,” I assume was the opening line of many an El Topo review had there been edgy online publications like Cinemaholism in 1970. Alas there wasn’t. And so it was now, in 2017, certainly overdueContinue Reading
