If you’re unfamiliar with Madeleine L’Engle award-winning classic, you won’t know much beyond the title and a vague notion of a little girl going on an adventure doing something to save people she cares about. If you’re coming to the story for the first time by way of this film, then you should know that you […]
What would you do to protect the ones you hold most dear? We know this story. Not that of Death Wish necessarily, but that of the revenge thriller. It is as classic a type of story as any ever told. It speaks to something so elemental in us humans, the idea of if someone hurts another […]
Mom and Dad is a very confused black comedy that squanders a decent premise and some solid work from leads Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair. What if one day your parents finally snapped, decided they’ve had enough of your attitude and tried to kill you? What if this happened with all parents, everywhere in the […]
‘Men and women can’t be friends…’ – Harry Burns, When Harry Met Sally The film industry has built a whole sub-genre within the romantic comedy realm of people attempting to get out of the ‘friend-zone.’ What Harry Burns articulates so well in the Rob Reiner classic is the undeniable fact that men and women cannot […]
Doug Jones’ work on Moon has proven to be a seminal effort in filmmaking and continues to be a reference point for film students in the realm of psychological science fiction. He describes Mute as a spiritual sequel to his 2009 cult classic. It is no wonder that Netflix would jump on board to get […]
Regardless of people’s political leanings, one thing can be said of the Kennedy family is that they are the closest thing to royalty for Americans in the past century. Their lifestyle, political profile and influence were undeniable. Coupled with the tragedies that continue to follow this high-profile family around, they have been rich fodder for […]
Charlotte Rampling’s character of the Matron who oversees the ‘Sparrow School’ states, ‘The Cold War is not over, it has merely been shattered into a million different pieces.’ This quote cuts a fine line to the reality of modern-day world politics and how espionage has changed over the years. Director Francis Lawrence attempts to tap […]
Throughout cinematic history, there have been various waves of interest in capitalizing on the rich content found in the Bible. From the Ten Commandments to The Passion of the Christ, filmmakers have utilized the material found in the 66 books of the beloved and maligned text from history. Recent incarnations have come from Darren Aronofsky […]
Annihilation is the newest science fiction thriller from Ex-Machina director Alex Garland starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez and Oscar Issac. In the opening shots of Annihilation, there is a meteor explosion from a lighthouse and the camera cuts to Lena (Natalie Portman) being interrogated by some sort of Hazmat agents […]
Back to the Future. Looper. X-Men: Days of Future Past. What do these films and many others like it, have in common? These pictures deal with time travel in some way. Heck, time travel is the main plot device that moves the story forward. In any story with time travel as an element in it, […]
