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The Cinephile’s Lounge: Week 14

It’s been a while since our last Lounge, but times have been crazy so that’s what you get! Let’s pick a nice lounge for us to hang out at… Let’s go to Norway!

The Well-Rounded Cinephile #0: An Introduction to Becoming a Film Know-It-All

The first in an ongoing column designed to help readers broaden their understanding of a wide variety of movies, and to become a well-rounded cinephile.

DIVERGENT Glorifies Extraversion

Divergent’s a fun, entertaining movie, but it has a few flaws. We discuss whether the film lived up to the book, and its glorification of extraversion.

100 Most Famous Movie Quotes: The Infographic

The most memorable and famous movie quotes of all time (as listed by the American Film Institute) visualized in an infographic. This is awesome.

PACIFIC RIM: A fun film, or a wasted concept?

Tyler Rowe’s review of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim. Those kaijus and robots were awesome, but we wanted MORE. Of everything.

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL: On Wes Anderson’s Homage to Stefan Zweig

Wes Anderson can be an acquired taste. Settling on gathering enjoyment from his films can come after much deliberation as to whether he’s serious about the utterly finicky nature he employs in his chosen colour palettes, set construction, camera movements and scrupulous plot details. But his films carry far more value than the kind of hipster magnetism that seemingly oozes out of them.

How to Analyse Movies #8: Putting It Into Practice

To help you apply the knowledge of the “How To Analyze Movies” series, we made you a handy tool! This is our movie analysis Beat Sheet.

NOAH: Director Aronofsky Is The God Of Cinematic Art

Noah is surreal and magical: nothing what you’d expect of a Bible retelling, but everything you’d expect from Darren Aronofsky, and it’s a piece of art.

VERONICA MARS: Marshmallow Makes S’more

Kristin Bell is back as Veronica Mars! Kimberly Gamble, a “Mashmallow” herself, reviews the movie.

OLDBOY Is A Case Study in How Not to Do a Remake

In this 2013 American “reinterpretation” of Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy – which was itself loosely based on a ‘90s manga by Tsuchiya Garon – a misogynistic, binge-drinking ad exec (Josh Brolin) is mysteriously abducted and held captive for 20 years without any explanation. Then, just as suddenly as he was taken, he’s released back into the world with a stack of cash, a phone, and a hankering for bloody, violent vengeance to help him find out why he was kidnapped in the first place. Full disclosure:

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