I’ve been searching really hard for films that make me feel something these days. Films that surprise me, contort me, shock me, expose me, and leave me all alone with myself at night.
Robert Eggers,’ “The Lighthouse,” did that for me.
It’s the 1890’s on a tiny, almost non-existent island in New England, and we are only given two characters to work with: Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. Dafoe, playing an elderly lighthouse keeper that appears to spend his whole…
It has taken society decades to come to the conclusion that depression and anxiety are real struggles people face. But what about other mental illnesses?
In Todd Philip’s latest film, “Joker,” played exquisitely by Joaquin Phoenix, we enter into the world of Arthur Fleck, a character suffering from compulsions, hallucinations and other pathologies unnamed but easily inferred.
The buzz surrounding this film alludes to the notion that upon seeing this kind of specific violence, people suffering with similar tendencies may…
How special it must be to receive excitement and optimism for your art just by the simple fact that your name is on it, and what that name means to those of us consuming it. “Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood,” written and directed by Quentin Tarantino (as the iconic credit sequence reveals) rallied viewers from all walks of life this summer upon its release.
As the ninth movie in a sequence of what Tarantino deems will be 10, the…
Upon watching the newest, and second Incredibles, I felt instant joy that the aesthetic was so clearly inspired by America in the ’60s and ’70s. The more I consumed it, the happier I felt.
Why is it that my generation is so quick to feel nostalgia over an era that we never lived in? Over a period in time that we view as exquisite, even though history has shown us time and time again that things weren’t what they seemed,…
