The Fall Guy: A Film Review
Your life is in the balance as you hear the steady beat of the helicopter blades fading away as the wind rushes past your hot cheeks and you know the earth is rushing 150 feet towards you to greet...
Mountain Boy—A Family Film
The endearing film Mountain Boy is adapted from Dr. Michele Ziolkowski’s children’s book trilogy The Boy Who Knew the Mountains, and brought to the screen by producers Nancy Paton and Meredith Brett. A young boy named Suhail, who is...
Poor Things: A Film Review
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things (2023) starts with one vivid, chilling shot of a woman falling off a bridge; presumably death by suicide. Next, the world is black and white and we are introduced to Bella Baxter (played by Emma...
Men
Men, 2022, Written and Directed by Alex Garland Alex Garland’s brand new film, Men, released May 20, 2022, is a beautiful and terrifying masterpiece, unique in its hard-hitting themes and shocking imagery. Viewers are introduced to Harper (Jessie Buckley),...
Mid90s
Jonah Hill’s Mid90s is a unique coming-of-age film from 2018 that is as tender and sweet as it is heart-wrenching. The film follows Stevie (Sunny Suljic), a troubled 13-year-old living in Los Angeles in the 1990s who becomes enamored...
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), is a beautiful, quirky, and artistic Persian-language film, written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, and shot completely in black-and-white. Production took place in Taft, California, although the film is set...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a highly stylized mystery/thriller film, adapted by Mark Kruger from Shirley Jackson’s 1962 novel, and directed by Stacie Passon. The film follows Mary Katherine “Merricat” Blackwood (Taissa Farmiga), an 18 year...
The Vanishing
The Vanishing, or Spoorloos, is a brilliant and suspenseful Dutch thriller from 1988, directed by George Sluizer. The film is an adaptation of Tim Krabbé’s novella from 1984, The Golden Egg or Het Gouden Ei. The Vanishing follows a...
Film Review: Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps is an odd and gruesome cult classic from the year 2000, directed by John Fawcett, and co-written by the director and Karen Walton. The film is set in the small, fictional town of Bailey Downs, Canada, where...
Film Review: The Love Witch
The Love Witch is an immensely stylized film filled with color and fantasy, written, directed, edited, produced, and scored, all by Anna Biller. The film follows beautiful, self-proclaimed “love witch,” Elaine (Samantha Robinson), determined to start anew and leave...
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