Carmen Paddock

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When asked to define the word eephus, many may just give up. The word sounds almost made-up if you do not come from the world of baseball. If you are a fan of the great American pastime, however, an eephus is a known quantity. It is the name for a strange, difficult pitch. In a game where pitchers’ speed in throwing is lauded as the pinnacle of achievement, the curving shot of an eephus is almost preternaturally slow.

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Film title: The Return Director: Uberto Pasolini Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari, Tom Rhys Harries Release date: 11 Apr Certificate: 15 Uberto Pasolini’s adaptation of the closing chapters of The Odyssey is a quiet take on the familiar finale. Here, Ithaca is in ruins, its lands wasted by the loss of its king and soldiers and, more pressingly, by the suitors vying for Penelope’s (Juliette Binoche) hand.

1 month ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Carmen Paddock

Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight seems, upon its opening, to be a quotidian domestic drama. Uma (Radhika Apte) has one key problem taking over her life: she and her new husband, Gobal (Ashok Parthak), are not at all compatible. Those who arranged their marriage failed to account for fundamental differences in temperament and, while neither is horrible to the other, existence within the same spaces soon becomes stifling for Uma in particular.

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Film title: Brief History of a Family Director: Jianjie Lin Starring: Feng Zu, KeYu Guo, Xilun Sun, Muran Lin Release date: 21 Mar Certificate: 15 Saltburn comparisons are almost inevitable in regards to Jianjie Lin’s psychological drama about a student ingratiating himself into a classmate’s family.

1 month ago | movieswetextedabout.com | Carmen Paddock

In The End, Joshua Oppenheimer turns his camera from documentary towards fiction while continuing his exploration of the lies people tell themselves. The film opens with a young man (George Mackay) painstakingly painting miniature figures and landscapes onto a large diorama; on closer inspection, the diorama seems to encapsulate a melange of US history and geography, with the Hollywood sign, a railroad, and the Wild West sitting beside each other.