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After Hours: An Absurd Yet Incredibly Charming Offering
Many films start and finish in the same place; sometimes the beginning sequences end in a cliffhanger, making it clear that the gaps will...
Genaro Luna
Nov 10, 20243 min read


Trzy kolory: Biały - A Film About Resilience… In All Aspects
The second installment of a color trilogy (Blue, White, & Red) was written, produced, and directed by Polish Krzysztof Kieślowski. It was...
Genaro Luna
Oct 20, 20243 min read


The Company of Strangers: A Magical View On Aging and Real Lives
This 1990 docufiction feature opens like a movie about kids on a field trip - a jovial soundtrack plays while a bright yellow bus gallops...
Genaro Luna
Oct 16, 20243 min read


Ratas, Ratones, Rateros: Welcome to Ecuador
The Ecuadorian film industry hasn’t and isn’t booming throughout history—nevertheless, queue in the entrance for Sebastian Cordero, one...
Genaro Luna
Oct 12, 20243 min read


Tokyo Godfathers: My New Favorite Christmas Movie
Christmas time marks a period where gifts are exchanged, meals are shared, and movies are watched. Some movies are comedies, adventures,...
Genaro Luna
Oct 6, 20243 min read


El Laberinto del Fauno: An Otherworldly Experience
2006 saw the inception of some great films to the big screen like Inland Empire, The Prestige, Children of Men, and The Last King of...
Genaro Luna
Sep 28, 20244 min read


Anomalisa: Am I The Problem or Is It The World?
I have to get something out of my chest before I start… Kaufman works so well as a writer, at times, masterfully as we’ve seen in Eternal...
Genaro Luna
Sep 24, 20244 min read


La Casa Lobo: A CHILing Project from CHILEan Directors… I’ll see myself out…
Inspired by the real post-WWII German colony in Southern Chile called Dignidad, two Chilean directors, Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña,...
Genaro Luna
Sep 17, 20244 min read


Lazzaro Felice: An Exceptional Surrealist Exploration
I didn’t want to use “adventure” in the title because even though we embark on one with Italian director Alice Rohrwacher, “exploration”...
Genaro Luna
Sep 10, 20243 min read


Incendies: A Remarkable Poetic Transposition
After the exponential success Denis Villeneuve has rightly gotten in recent years due to extraordinary films like Prisoners, Arrival,...
Genaro Luna
Sep 5, 20243 min read


Love Lies Bleeding: They Forgot One More… Power
After her critically acclaimed debut “Saint Maud”, Rose Glass strikes back, literally packing a punch, with her gritty, oily, and boiling...
Genaro Luna
Aug 26, 20243 min read


Close: An Un-breakable Bond
The quote “a friend is one soul abiding in two bodies” has never rung clearer to me than after seeing Lukas Dhont’s 2022 coming-of-age...
Genaro Luna
Aug 22, 20244 min read


The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Revenge is a Dish Best Served…Slow
How hard is it to forget about someone’s passing? Does one blame oneself?... or do we find a scapegoat? What about if it’s your father…...
Genaro Luna
Aug 5, 20245 min read
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