American Fiction
The tastes of the public at large when it comes to art are a constant enigma. Often works of great depth and intelligence are passed over while something perceived as [...]
The Boy and the Heron
After the release of the brilliant The Wind Rises in 2013, legendary director Hayao Miyazaki announced that he was retiring from work on feature-length films. After a 30-plus year career filled with [...]
Silent Night
“Start Gang War?” This annotation, a calendar reminder written by the film’s protagonist Brian Godluck (Joel Kinnaman), is a perfect encapsulation of just how stupid Silent Night is. Legendary director [...]
Monster
The transition from childhood into the teenage years can be among the most turbulent years of a person’s life. Thoughts, actions, and relationships change, and kids often feel alone during [...]
The Burial
The courtroom drama film has been around nearly as long as the medium of film itself. Following what felt like an oversaturation in the Grisham-influenced 1990s, the genre seemed to [...]
A Haunting in Venice
In 2017, Kenneth Branagh, often an adaptor of classic literature in his work as an actor/director, set his sights on a new author and character: Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. While [...]
Dreamin’ Wild
Hollywood loves a biopic. And within that greater subgenre, an area of deep focus is the music biopic. From 1909’s Origin of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to last year’s Elvis, filmmakers [...]
They Cloned Tyrone
Cloning is a topic that filmmakers have been fascinated with for years. While the roots of the topic are in science-fiction such as Moon or Swan Song, it has found a place in [...]
The Lesson
While adaptations of novels often serve as the basis of films, there are also many occasions where a writer themselves, whether real or fictional, has been the subject of a [...]
Prisoner’s Daughter
Estranged or dysfunctional families have been a source of inspiration for storytelling since the dawn of storytelling. Because we all have had at least some family, these stories are often [...]