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PENEFLIX REFLECTIONS ON 97TH ACADEMY AWARDS

I liked “Anora” but never to the extent of its victories at this year’s Academy Awards; there is an …
CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD (in theatres)

Actually, a better choice is to revisit Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” which commences th…
PENEFLIX PREDICTIONS: 97TH ACADEMY AWARDS

Another banner year in movie-making history; in so many ways it was glorifying, shockingly innovativ…
BRING THEM DOWN (in theatres)

An intensely orchestrated and depicted feud between two Irish families in the solemn, untarnished, u…
I’M STILL HERE ( Brazil: Portuguese, English subtitles) in theatres

The commencement of this potent, poignant, profound film is saturated in palatable love; director Wa…
PRESENCE (in theatres)

Everyone, at one time or another has sensed, without seeing, the presence of an unknown entity or ex…
HARD TRUTHS (in theatres)

Director Mike Leigh has created a paradigm of an individual who makes the act of complaining into an…
THE LAST SHOWGIRL (in theatres)

Commencing immediately there is a poetic, romantic poignancy pulsating at its lyrical core; in a myr…
THE BRUTALIST (in theatres)

Director/writer Brady Corbet gifts film/art/architecture/ history lovers more than one’s digestive s…
SEPTEMBER 5 (in theatres)

“One Day in September” (1999) won the 2000 Academy Award for the Best Documentary; brilliantly bruta…
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (in theatres)

Movie attendees have been feted to a plethora of exciting biopics in recent years: “Bohemian Rapsody…
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Persian: English subtitles, in theatres)

This film, more than any in recent memory, testifies to the miraculous, transformative power of film…