Film Review: The Family (2016)
When much of our media is dominated by fad and ‘false news’, it is quite interesting to see a film about a truly false…
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Film Review: The Great Wall (2016)
The Great Wall opens with prologue text that gives us some information about the Great Wall of China. It decidedly tells us that there…
Film Review: Hidden Figures (2016)
The current fascination with American race relations continues like never before in Oscar season 2017. The pallid white-fest of the previous years climaxed famously…
Film Review: Fences (2016)
“Some people build fences to keep people out…and other people build fences to keep people in” – August Wilson, Fences. Boundaries, borders, divisions, and…
Film Review: The Handmaiden (2016)
With The Handmaiden, director Park Chan-wook (perhaps best known for Oldboy) adds another visually indulgent and thematically risqué film to his resume. The screenplay,…
Film Analysis: Scorsese’s Cinema of Religion
There is no doubt that Martin Scorsese is most renowned for his Italian-American crime dramas of the ‘70s and ’80s. It would not be surprising…
Film Review: Silence (2016)
The silence in the title of Martin Scorsese’s most recent film refers to the silence of the voice of God, when one is alone…
Film Review: Arrival (2016)
Denis Villeneuve is one of the most talented and exciting directors in contemporary cinema. In Prisoners he portrays vengeful parental anguish with a palpably…
Film Review: The Mummy (1999)
“There is a hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it.” This…
Film Review: Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner surely there’s no better time to release the next film in the Fifty Shades trilogy. Because nothing…