Despite erratic nationwide weather pattern, May Day 2023 has nevertheless brought with it a palpable sense of Spring reverie and renewal—not least of all in movie theaters and on streaming platforms. The freshly-launched Writers Strike (necessary and overdue) will no doubt result in some crinkling of the garden hose of fresh content, but that’s for future content consumers to worry about. In the meantime, enjoy this month’s Don’t-Miss Indies!
A Small Light
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: Disney+, Hulu, NatGeo, ABC
Creators: Joan Rater, Tony Phelan
Cast: Bel Powley, Liev Schreiber, Joe Cole, Amira Casar, Billie Boullet, Ashley Brooke
Why We’re Excited: Shot in Prague and Amsterdam in the summer of 2022, this eight-part National Geographic limited series brings us the true story that transpired during the Nazi occupation of both nations in WWII. Austrian-born Dutch woman Miep Gies works for Otto Frank at a spice company.
A Small Light
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: Disney+, Hulu, NatGeo, ABC
Creators: Joan Rater, Tony Phelan
Cast: Bel Powley, Liev Schreiber, Joe Cole, Amira Casar, Billie Boullet, Ashley Brooke
Why We’re Excited: Shot in Prague and Amsterdam in the summer of 2022, this eight-part National Geographic limited series brings us the true story that transpired during the Nazi occupation of both nations in WWII. Austrian-born Dutch woman Miep Gies works for Otto Frank at a spice company.
- 5/2/2023
- by Su Fang Tham
- Film Independent News & More
Polite Society Review — Polite Society (2023) Film Review from the 45th Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by Nida Manzoor, starring Priya Kansara, Rita Arya, Renu Brindle, Rekha John-Cheriyan, Seraphina Beh, Ella Bruccoleri, Shona Babayemi, Akshay Khanna, and Su McLaughlin. Strong performances, snappy retorts, and razor-sharp editing energize this bizarre genre mosaic, [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Polite Society: Performances and Dialog Triumph Over Spotty Logic in Zany Mishmash [Sundance 2023]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Polite Society: Performances and Dialog Triumph Over Spotty Logic in Zany Mishmash [Sundance 2023]...
- 2/23/2023
- by David McDonald
- Film-Book
Starring Narinder Samra, Neelam Parmar, Chris Villiers and Hassani Shapi
Written & Directed by Avantika Hari
There is a nip in the British air…The verdant tranquility of Birmingham is torn apart by the kind of domestic violence that we read about and talk only in hushed whispers, and that too when references are made to supposedly primitive practices in the psychologically-undeveloped section of North India.
But honour killing in ‘civilized’ England? Nah! This one has got to be just one of those exaggerated dramas of the damned that come along to shock us in the movies.
It’s astonishing how quickly and expertly writer-director Avantika Hari does away with our cynical reading of the volatile subject. The script approaches its gentle characters, a cultured Muslim family keeping its head high(and veiled, of course) in a super-cosmopolitan society that constantly threatens to blow the lid off the conservative core of the family nucleus.
Written & Directed by Avantika Hari
There is a nip in the British air…The verdant tranquility of Birmingham is torn apart by the kind of domestic violence that we read about and talk only in hushed whispers, and that too when references are made to supposedly primitive practices in the psychologically-undeveloped section of North India.
But honour killing in ‘civilized’ England? Nah! This one has got to be just one of those exaggerated dramas of the damned that come along to shock us in the movies.
It’s astonishing how quickly and expertly writer-director Avantika Hari does away with our cynical reading of the volatile subject. The script approaches its gentle characters, a cultured Muslim family keeping its head high(and veiled, of course) in a super-cosmopolitan society that constantly threatens to blow the lid off the conservative core of the family nucleus.
- 12/2/2011
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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