Tony Malik

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The Banshees of Inisherin: A Microcosm of The Irish Civil War

January 12, 2023 IN the beginning, a beautiful, green and serene isle called "Inisherin". Translated from Gaelic to English, the name means "The island of Ireland". An isolated isle. An isolated people. Since time immemorial, circumstances had compelled them to live together. An isolated family.

Aftersun: A Holiday, a Shared Sky and Words Left Unsaid.

Jan 4, 2023, 20.45 , a colorful and empathetic coming-of-age drama, -and a film I personally consider the antithesis of astonished critics, especially in independent and arthouse quarters, as 2022 drew to a close.

Eyimofe Review: 'The Nigerian dream'

"The "Nigerian dream" is to escape Nigeria." If a movie could summarize itself in a sentence, this would be Eyimofe's profound statement, spoken on 16mm grainy film. A diptych title that wastes no time in visually expressing intent. On a black screen, the word "Spain" appears inconspicuously at the bottom, almost as if intended to go unseen.

The King's Horseman

I just watched Netflix's, directed by the brilliant Biyi Bandele , and now I realize I've never really seen a Nollywood movie like this at all. This literary and elusive work, which seems to polarize critics, is quite simple in its delivery yet labyrinthine in scope, guileless yet indignant.

Jeanne Dielman: A slice of a review.

1:15am, December 3, 2022 On a quiet afternoon in April this year, I set aside three hours to watch Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Brussels , and it turned out to be some of the most eye-opening three hours of my life. I quickly realized I was watching a deeply rebellious film.

The Woman King Is A Conflicted Blockbuster

Tony Malick WOMEN warriors have long captured the imagination, especially among modern entertainment producers - and understandably so. The idea of an all-female battle regiment, experienced at warfare and fighting on behalf of a West African kingdom called Dahomey for three centuries is intriguing in character, admirable in scope and irresistible in content to Hollywood executives.

'Drive My Car' is the ride of the year

Tony Malik, 23:16, March 21. "Chekhov is terrifying. When you say his lines, he drags out the real you." With these words, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's protagonist, the grief-stricken Yūsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), may have deliberately hinted at his inner struggles and motivations more than any performance or non-performance on/off the stage of his could have revealed.

The Hand of God: a Portrait of Naples, a Love Letter to Women and A Tribute To Diego Maradona

The Hand of God is a colourful and personal reference to Paulo Sorrentino's youth in 1980s Naples - one of Italy's legendary cities and the birthplace of Pizza. If there's a type of movie I like, it's the subgenre of autobiography where the director is bold enough to bare the foundational events of his soul to the audience.