Good Morning Karachi is cleaved in two. The action of the film is conducted in both Urdu and English, and the separation is nearly discrete. English is coded as the language of progress, civility, luxury; it’s the language spoken by the elites, the beautiful people. Rafina, the lead character, quite literally sees learning English as […]
Turbo Kid is a Post-Apocalyptic Splatterfest with a Whole Lot of Heart
The mood of the moment is dour post-apocalypses, hopeless expanses of disrupted civilization and bleak sand and rock backdrops. This isn’t escape fiction, it’s a blunt reminder of what we’re pretty clearly heading towards if we keep up our bad habits. But genres need room to breathe otherwise they shrivel and die. Montreal special effects […]