Review: What Happened to Monday? (2017) ★★
Dystopian science fiction is a genre that requires full commitment from the director, the actors, and perhaps most importantly, the
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A Philosophical Approach to Cinema
Author: Matthew Jones
Review: Butterfly on a Wheel (Shattered, 2007) ★½
While thrillers are not generally my favorite kind of film, there are a number of very well-made and entertaining entries
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Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) ★★★★
Whenever a film addresses sex in a way that is neither prudish nor sensationalized, it should be lauded as something
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Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) ★
As petty as it may seem, I get a sense of vindictive pleasure when a huge, exorbitantly expensive blockbuster like
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Review: Silent Hill (2006) ★½
It is apparently very difficult to make a quality film that is based on a video game franchise. Uwe Boll
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Review: Tale of Tales (2015) ★★★★
Anthologies have a very unsteady place in the history of cinema and film criticism. More often than not, films that
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Review: Brigsby Bear (2017) ★★★
Having watched Kyle Mooney’s Youtube channel and subsequent success on Saturday Night Live, I can say without reservation that he
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Review: The Wailing (곡성, 2016) ★★
The Wailing is one of those horror films that reels you in with a moody atmosphere and a promising story,
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Case Study: Elements of Horror in Take Me to the River
Genre is, as it relates to filmmaking, an unspoken agreement between filmmaker and viewer. While genres are used to categorize
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Review: Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) ★★★½
I am generally not a fan of sentimental films. That is not to say that I think films should lack
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Review: The Room (2003) ★
The upcoming release of James Franco’s The Disaster Artist (2017) has breathed new life into the mystique surrounding Tommy Wiseau’s
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Review: Villa Amalia (2009) ★★★★
One of the great things about watching a film starring Isabelle Huppert is that we, as audience members, never fully
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Review: The Holy Mountain (1973) ★★★★
There are few films that embody the rejection of traditional artistic methods and Western moral presuppositions more than Alejandro Jodorowsky’s
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10 Lesser-Known Postmodern Films
What is a Postmodern Film? While postmodernism encompasses a cultural, political, scientific, philosophical, and artistic reaction to modernity, it does
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Review: The Beguiled (2017) ★★
I try not to judge films too much by their trailers. In fact, while I do like watching trailers before
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Review: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) ★★★½
Though I’m not a diehard fan of the original Blade Runner (1982), there’s no denying that it has developed a
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Review: In Secret (2013) ★★½
In Secret, directed by Charlie Stratton and based on the 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, tells the story
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