Movie Reviews
Title: Chicken with Plums Director: Vincent Paronnaud Starring: Mathieu Almaric, Maria de Medeiros, Golshifteh Farahani Based on the graphic novel of the same name–written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi–Chicken with…
Everyone waits until the year is over to compile their “Best of whatever” movie lists. This has become a mundane practice. Time for a bit of a change, kids. Aside…
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN (Les adiex à la reine) Cohen Media Group Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten Grade: B- Director: Benoît Jacquot Screenwriter: Gilles Taurand, Benoît Jacquot, from Chantal Thomas’s…
Title: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Director: Lorene Scafaria Starring: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley and Connie Britton (TV’s ‘American Horror Story,’ ‘Friday Night Lights’) With the…
Title: One Day on Earth Director: Kyle Ruddick Like last year’s “Life in a Day,” which also aimed to catalogue a single day on this planet, documentary “One Day on…
Title: OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive Major Depression Bipolar Asperger’s Movie Directors: Bud Clayman, Glenn Holsten and Scott Johnston Featuring: Bud Clayman Mental health issues are but one of many elephants…
ALPS (Alpies) Kino Lorber Films Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten Grade: B- Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Screenwriter: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou Cast: Aggeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris, Ariane Labed,…
Title: Elena Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev Starring: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov and Aleksey Rozin Building tension is an art form in itself. Hitchcock knew that, and apparently so does Andrei Zvyagintsev.…
Title: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Directed By: Timur Bekmambetov Starring: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, Marton Csokas, Jimmi Simpson If you’re going to make…
