Open Grave has been described as a philosophical journey, but it’s just a story about fear and survival that leaves you in the dark for most of it. Review by Tyler Rowe.
Dark endings make movies so much more interesting, right? Or don’t they? What do you prefer? This is a discussion – feel free to participate!
Dallas Buyers Club isn’t just a story about a dude in the 1980’s that got AIDS and built a drugs emporium – it’s much more than that.
Don’t we all love overpriced coffee? For one, The Lego Movie is chock full of adult humor, and makes for an excellent watch for the grown-ups among us, too.
In this installment of How To Analyze Movies we discuss our understanding of story and genre, and how to use it to analyze film!
Preview of The Purge: Anarchy. They’re going to show us what happens outside, during the Purge, but let’s hope they give us more back story this time.
Alas, the Oscars, and with that, the awards season are over – we have a sad. Let’s celebrate the winners (and wallow in our sadness) with some infographics!
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Let’s go to Thailand! The Siam Paragon Cineplex I’ve actually been to the Siam Paragon shopping center in Bangkok last November, but we didn’t go to the cinema there… As tickets were insanely expensive:
In this installment of How to Analyze Movies we discuss the importance of lighting, sound and score, and how you should analyze them.
Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal collaborate again after Prisoners (read my review here), now for a movie called Enemy. Gyllenhaal plays a dual role, that of Adam Bell and Anthony St. Claire.
Anyone who enjoys a complex character should see Filth. We discuss the movie’s representation of corruption and explanations for criminal behavior.
It’s less than a week to go for the big event of the Academy Awards! On March 2, the 86th Academy Awards will take place, presented by Ellen DeGeneres. The event usually takes place a week earlier, but was scheduled a week later to prevent broadcasting conflicts with the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Identity is a short film by KJ Adames. The short film criticizes the dominant cultural norms of identity and the self, and beautifully stylized, suggests we be ourselves instead of try to conform to those norms. Although the use of masks is a tad literal, I found it interesting nonetheless.