Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a quiet film. Most of the film seems like anticipation for something to come: the portrait. Once it gets there, it starts over again because it did not satisfy. Then we wait for something else in the relationship between the painter and the muse that has developed in a rarely short amount of time. The muse anticipates the future as much as we do but she fears it. There is a great contrast…
Although Last Night in SoHo is not a typical Edgar Wright film, it is a thrilling experience and a welcomed change up. Unexpected aspects of modern horror and thrillers turns this simple, nostalgic noir into something devious yet enchanting. Wright typically employs violence but this time exchanges comedy for danger and mystery to welcome the viewer into the conflicted city of London in an unlikely story. The movements of the camera are quite overwhelming and exciting: circling and panning add…