No, “The Void” is not about existential dread, heartbreak, or any of that sort. The feeling of “The Void” is one of melancholy. It’s a feeling of having something missing inside you like a……Well, like a void. This happens after finishing a particular piece of art. Have you ever finished a Series, Game, or Book […]
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A brief review of the three colors trilogy by Krzysztof Kieślowski Blue Navigating life despite it all Three colors: blue is the first part of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy. The movie is about Julie (Juliette Binoche) who loses her husband and daughter in a tragic car accident. We follow Julie as she tries to navigate her
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Dogtooth is a strange case. The movie is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos who also directed “Killing of a sacred deer” and “the lobster ”. If you have seen any of those films then you would know what you are in for. His films are not strange in the traditional way. Where absurd imagery and a
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Ridley Scott started his career in the perfect fashion (see what I did there) he has undoubtedly made some of the best movies ever, but apart from The Martian he has not made a good movie since 2001. He is on a giant losing streak, so is the house of Gucci a return to form?
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Being John Malkovich is a film from 1999 directed by Spike Jonze and written by the always original, if not slightly neurotic Charlie Kaufman. The duo would later go on and make the movie Adaptation starring Nicolas Cage twice. Being John Malkovich is a strange movie, and I don’t mean it in the sense that
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The word outsider is being used to an extreme degree at this point. More and more works seem to invoke this specific word. Most of, if not all of these works are about, you guessed it, people feeling like outsiders in one way or another. However, I have reached my limit in how much I
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Stephen King is among my favorite authors ever. His insanely in-depth character work, wacky stories, and simple but super effective use of pros have made him a storytelling master the likes of which are rarely seen before. BUT! He is also very prolific and publishes multiple books a year. This brings the problem of “Where
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Horror movies tend to depict different scary creatures such as ghosts, ghouls, and demons. The approach to making horrific elements vary greatly, some do it well, others not so much. In this post, I will try to outline what the best kind of horror looks like. First a couple of disclaimers 1 I am not a
We live in a shallow world, full of preconceived notions, prejudice, bias, and ugly thoughts about other people based on very little (if any) information. Values like kindness and happiness are not valued at all. The things that matters are success and money. How many expensive things can you collect in your life before the
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It feels like everything being made today is bad, or at least worse in terms of quality compared to just a couple of years ago. My average score for movies I consume has dropped off these past couple of years. I struggled to even go to the movies these days. I think there are a
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