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, […]
Mukti Bhavan, or Hotel Salvation had a successful festival circuit last year, and is finally available on home release! This feature debut from young Indian filmmaker Shubhashish Bhutiani is a brilliantly understated and moving film that tells the story of a middle-aged man reconnecting with his dying father. Adil Hussain (Life of Pi, English Vinglish) […]
“The Kingdom of God has an area measured not in square miles but in square hours. It is a kingdom with all the time in the world – we have used all the time available to us, and must seek an imaginary sort of time.” Found in The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst In this […]
Black Panther is the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, directed by Creed and Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler, and starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright and Angela Bassett. Picking up almost immediately after the events of Captain America: Civil War, T’Challa (Boseman)’s father has passed away, and he is about […]
What are we looking at when it comes to something with Cloverfield in the title? In the ten years since the original film was released, the name Cloverfield has become synonymous with the cryptic and mysterious. An ambitious and opaque marketing campaign culminating in a surprising experience is what the original film was. Because trailers […]
While Black Panther is obviously the most racially progressive film that Marvel has ever put out, what’s garnering less attention is how feminist it is. So far, the MCU hasn’t been great with diversity of race or gender. People of color have been limited to one quippy black sidekick per franchise, and literally no characters of […]
