We need to talk about Kevin is a 2011 film directed by Lynn Ramsey about a mother and her adversarial relationship with her son Kevin. The film is a challenging and visceral experience with a constant heavy tone that keeps an intense mode that crushes the viewer throughout the film. A few things are making the …
In Bruge is one of my favorite movies. It’s a dark comedy that is both simultaneously hilarious and clever. The dialog is well-crafted and sharp, the characters are well-rounded and the acting is top-notch. The director of the film Martin Macdonald and the stars Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell are back with a new film …
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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 …
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 …
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? …
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 …
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 …
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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I have once again lost my mind in a futile pursuit of something everybody else would deem as “not important”. See, I have this love/hate relationship with the concept of genre or should I say hate/hate, for the concept of genre is totally removed from common logic. A genre is defined as “a style or …