Category: Film
Guy Ritchie, The Man From Hatfield, Gives Us The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
It would seem as though Guy Ritchie has been keeping a low profile since his last film came out in 2011. A sequel to Sherlock [Read More…]
Everyone Needs A Mistress America
“Isn’t every story a story of betrayal?” So begins Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America. It’s a classic writer’s tale: using someone else’s life as one’s own fodder. [Read More…]
Relating to Rebecca’s Bourgeois Desires As Well As Enid’s Need to Disappear & Be Free in Ghost World
At one point or another in our lives, we all feel the dilemma presented via the bifurcating paths taken by Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca [Read More…]
Is There Any Particular Reason Alexander Skarsgård Felt Compelled to Dress in Drag?
Maybe it’s pointless to discern celebrity motives at this juncture in the fame game. Is it all truly rooted in a cry for attention masked [Read More…]
The End of the Tour Is Just the Start of Analyzing David Foster Wallace
“Technology is only going to get better. And it’s going to become more and more comfortable for people to sit in a room alone enjoying [Read More…]
La Sapienza: A Study in the Wisdom of Architecture
Somewhere between beauty and knowledge lies “la sapienza,” or sapience a.k.a. great wisdom and sound judgment for those unfamiliar with the semi-archaic term. It is [Read More…]
The Paper Thinness of Paper Towns
Cara Delevingne’s already vast film career has left behind nothing all that memorable thus far. Her eighth–yes, eighth–effort as an actress is yet another adaptation [Read More…]
On Clouds of Sils Maria
Olivier Assayas, a seasoned writer-director and connoisseur of obsession and loss of control, touches on these themes and beyond in one of his most notable [Read More…]
The Minimalistic Romance of Before We Go
One wouldn’t imagine the frat boy charm and Adonis perfection of Chris Evans to translate into him being a savvy director-producer, yet Before We Go [Read More…]
It’s Difficult to Focus When You’re Dealing With A Con Movie As Cliche In Plot As Focus
The rules of the con movie have long ago been established by such classics as The Lady Eve and Bedtime Story. The charming con man, [Read More…]
