Remember
Remember (2016, Canada/Germany, d. Atom Egoyan, 94 Minutes) By Jesse Stringer Remember follows the character of Zev Guttman, an elderly man suffering from dementia who also happens [...]
10 Cloverfield Lane
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016, USA, d. Dan Trachtenberg, 103 Minutes) by Jesse Stringer 10 Cloverfield Lane came into the public consciousness as abruptly as a new Beyoncé album. [...]
Out of Which Past?
by Barry Germansky Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko (2001) proves that genre does not exist outside the enterprise of convenient label-making. Due to the malleability of language, any work of [...]
Invasion of the Adulthood Snatchers
by Barry Germansky The adult world is polymorphously corrupt and lacks the imagination to recognize that "The Way Things Are" is merely a byproduct of a deteriorating sense of [...]
Steven Spielberg, Schindler’s List, and the Crisis of Representation
by Barry Germansky Schindler's List (1993) is quite possibly the most philosophically significant dramatic narrative film ever made (and all doubt of the film's supreme philosophical status is removed [...]
Zootopia
Zootopia (2016, USA, d. Byron Howard, Rich Moore, & Jared Bush, 108 Minutes) by Jesse Stringer For the past few years, there appears to have been a small [...]
Regression
Regression (2016, Canada/Spain, d. Alejandro Amenábar, 106 Minutes) by Jesse Stringer In the early 90’s, there was a sudden outbreak in paranoia over a speculated increase in [...]
Knight of Cups (2016, USA, d. Terrence Malick)
At this moment, it’s apparent visionary Terrence Malick has given up on narrative filmmaking. He has now become a one-trick pony where his distinctive style has sadly reached [...]