Review: Home (2008) ★★★★½
Home (2008) offers a unique view of a family’s collective mental breakdown in the face of change. Similarly, films like
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Review: Oh Lucy! (2017) ★★★★
As a former ESL teacher, it’s hard not to laugh at the cynical truths of Atsuko Hirayanagi’s directorial debut, Oh
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Review: Nancy (2018) ★★★★
It wasn’t so long ago that the concept of an “online persona” didn’t even exist. Before the Internet, maintaining a
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Review: The Tunnel (2011) ★★½
Australia has produced a number of horror films throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s that far exceeded expectations. The
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Arrival (2016): Will We Understand Aliens When (If) They Arrive?
How many civilizations are there in our galaxy? According to the Drake equation, written in 1961 by American astrophysicist Frank
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Review: Desire (2017) ★★★★
Diego Kaplan’s erotic thriller, Desire or Desearás al Hombre de Tu Hermana (literally: “You Desire Your Sister’s Man”), has been
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10 Metaphysical Films for Philosophy Students
When I took my first Intro to Philosophy course, I remember thinking that metaphysics was too dense for me; it
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Review: My Old Lady (2014) ★
Every once in a while a movie comes along that really surprises me. Before watching Israel Horovitz’s filmmaking debut, My
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Review: The Missionary (1982) ★★½
I enjoy dry British humor and satire as much as anyone. Monty Python’s entire existence depends on it. However, like
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Review: The Suckling (1990) ★
Whenever B-movie horror directors want to make a point, it’s usually not a very good one. The metaphors possess little
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Review: Joker (2019) ★★★½
The most recent adaptation of the DC Comics villain has divided audiences and critics more than any other, and for
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Review: Locked Up (2017) ★
Films like Flash Gordon (1980) or Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003) are so bad, they’re good. In the former, over-the-top
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Spinoza Quotes and Arguments On Substance
Argument In Part I, Proposition 13 of Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics, Depicted in Geometrical Order, Spinoza quotes the following argument to
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Review: Terrifier (2016) ★★★½
I will readily admit that the name “Terrifier” did not inspire much confidence in me. It sounds more like a
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A Defense of Mill and the Principle of Utility
John Stuart Mill illustrates the Principle of Utility as a guide for individual action in which morality is determined by
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Review: Lyle (2014) ★
For many years, the American independent film scene was generally free from many of “big” Hollywood’s more egregious tendencies. In
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Review: Midsommar (2019) ★★★★
Writer-Director Ari Aster has shown, for better or worse, that he has a certain preoccupation with trauma. In both of
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