Review: Shiny, Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart (2006) ★★★★
Some films succeed on a purely visceral level. I tend to shy away from these kinds of stories, like romantic
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A Philosophical Approach to Cinema
movie analysis
Review: Rings (2017) ★½
A spooky atmosphere goes a long way in elevating works of horror above the muck and mire of indie B-movie
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Review: Son of Rambow (2007) ★★
Being wholesome does not automatically make a work of fiction praiseworthy; in fact, it generally belies any sense of ambiguity
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Review: The Babadook (2014) ★★★★
No matter how one feels about parenting or the decision to have children, it is abundantly clear that the burden
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Review: A Ghost Story (2017) ★★★½
I went into A Ghost Story expecting something very different (namely something a bit more horrific), so in that sense
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Review: I, Tonya (2017) ★★★
There is something inherently cheap about biographical dramas concerning contemporary figures, particularly living figures. If I watch Marie Antoinette (2006),
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Review: Gigante (2009) ★★★½
Many Hollywood films are guilty of exaggerating mundane, everyday events; every flirting glance is meaningful, every moment of serendipity is
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Review: After the Dark (2013) ★½
John Huddles has attempted to bring philosophy to life with After the Dark, and not in the way that filmmakers
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Review: What We Become (2015) ★★½
Apparently, filmmakers are not concerned with showing the best and brightest humanity has to offer during a zombie apocalypse; instead,
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Review: Baskin (2015) ★★★
There is a fine line between what academics and horror aficionados would deem “high-art” horror (though many will claim that
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Review: The Ritual (2017) ★★★½
The horror genre is one of the few arenas where doing things “by the books” is not necessarily a bad
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Review: The Official Story (La Historia Oficial, 1985) ★★★★
One issue I take with most fictionalized accounts of historical events is that they fail to understand how closely they
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Review: The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) ★★★
One of the primary issues plaguing modern horror is stories that often don’t have the legs to reach a satisfying
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Review: Marie Antoinette (2006) ★★★★
Marie Antoinette was a historical figure who has become synonymous with excess. More often than not, this has been used
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Review: The Headless Woman (2008) ★★★★
When people are faced with chaos, or, to be a bit less melodramatic, an absence of facts that would otherwise
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Review: Madame (2017) ★
Amanda Sthers’ romantic comedy, Madame, exemplifies just how pervasive American cinematic banality has become. Despite being written and directed by
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Review: Kept and Dreamless (Las Mantenidas Sin Sueños, 2005) ★★★
Kept and Dreamless is, above all else, a mood picture. It makes spectators adopt the same sentiments as the characters,
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