Kaveh Jalinous
Film and Television Critic at Under the Radar
Co-founder/co-editor, Kinoculture. DVD Editor/Film and Television Critic, Under The Radar Magazine. Freelance Journalist, Filmmaker, Screenwriter, & Musician.
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2 days ago |
undertheradarmag.com | Kaveh Jalinous
Web Exclusive If your local cinema’s showtimes (or box office trends of recent years) communicate anything, it’s that we live in a world of remakes. At the time of this review’s publishing, the 2025 summer film season has been dominated by two live-action remakes, neither of which seem to add anything novel to their original counterparts. The formula’s become all-too-familiar; a remake sidelines creativity for perceived familiarity.
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2 weeks ago |
undertheradarmag.com | Kaveh Jalinous
Web Exclusive If you’re a cinephile, chances are you’ve been subjected to a seemingly endless barrage of biopics, a genre so routine and “Oscar bait”-y that the majority of its films almost feel indistinguishable. After watching enough biopics, you start to feel as if the ‘subject of the day’ has been plugged into a non-changing algebraic formula—the narrative beats and stylistic features always feel the same.
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1 month ago |
undertheradarmag.com | Kaveh Jalinous
Web Exclusive Last year, in what very well may be one of the best filmgoing experiences of my life, I had the opportunity to catch the new restoration of Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival. The film was introduced by La La Land director Damien Chazelle, who perfectly captured what makes Demy’s film so magical, and one of the best films ever made.
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2 months ago |
undertheradarmag.com | Kaveh Jalinous
Web Exclusive As a cinephile (and critic?), there are certain movies that follow you throughout your lifetime. For those who watch a lot of films—and in quick succession—people tend to assume you’ve seen everything, as if the number of films ever made isn’t well into the hundreds of thousands by now.
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2 months ago |
undertheradarmag.com | Kaveh Jalinous
Web Exclusive Hong Kong action cinema fans rise! Eureka’s latest release pairs two underseen Chang Cheh films, The Daredevils (1979) and Ode to Gallantry (1982), starring the Venom Mob, a group of five actors who starred in a number of Hong Kong action films together in the late-‘70s/early-‘80s.
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