Revisiting Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict | Far Flungers
One of the most astounding scenes in the movie comes when a seemingly unremarkable, shy nurse enters a courtroom. The impact of this scene is such that when comparing it…
A Critical Look at The Color of Money | Far Flungers
Even though “The Color of Money” has three main leads, this is the continuation of Fast Eddie Felson’s story at its core. Aside from a lack of urgency, the other…
Ghost World: A Quirky Girl and Her Unexpected Friend | Far Flungers
In Seymour, Enid finds someone who can be a better alternative for friendship because he is much lonelier than she is in many aspects. Whenever he is not working as…
The Oneness of All Things: On Sofia Alaoui’s Animalia | Far Flungers
The film premiered at this year’s Sundance film festival, and was recently acquired for distribution by Egypt’s Film Clinic, as headed by producer Mohamed Hefzy. “Animalia” is expected to screen at more festivals…
Revisiting Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore | Far Flungers
Shortly after she and her son hurriedly move to Tuscon without looking back, Alice decides to put aside her aspiration for a while due to their current poor financial status…
Looking Back at Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure | Far Flungers
While Takabe and Sakuma (Tsuyoshi Ujiki), a psychologist who is also Takabe’s close friend, keep searching for anything common among these gruesome murders, the movie shows us what’s happening on…
A Clockwork Orange: Battling with Kubrick’s Most Controversial Film | Far Flungers
And there is that infamous scene where Alex sings the titular song from a certain well-known Hollywood musical movie as he and his gang savagely attack a middle-aged writer and…
There Are Many Different Types of Deaths: On This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection | Far Flungers
The narrator transports us to a small village in Lesotho known as the Plains of Weeping. There, we meet our protagonist, Mantoa, played by Mary Twala Mhlongo. We learn that…
Alive Again: Revisiting Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park | Far Flungers
Although it understandably looks a bit dated at present (I was personally tickled by the brief appearance of CD-ROM equipment, for example), “Jurassic Park” is a thrilling film that holds…
On the Power of Ramin Bahrani’s The White Tiger | Far Flungers
And then, as already shown to us at the very beginning of the film, something quite serious happens. I will not go into much detail, but the incident opens Balram’s…