Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Bad Genius is a film about an intelligent high school girl, Lynn, who helps her friends cheat on exams. Although hesitant in the beginning and questioning her own morals in helping her classmates cheat and charging them for it, it quickly spiraled into recruiting another intelligent classmate, Bank, to cheat on an international standardized test. It was also a very fitting name for the male protagonist as he was the one who ended up being the most greedy for the…
A cute and bizarre love story of a troubled couple who both choose to remove each other from their memories. We start off with the male protagonist who seems depressed and the outgoing female protagonist. I thought the beginning scene on the train where the two protagonists had their first conversations introduces the dynamic of the couple and sets the tone off for the rest of the film very well. Kate Winslet played her role very well and I loved…
Always Be My Maybe was a cute and relaxing romantic comedy to watch. The movie follows the reunion of two childhood sweethearts who end up trying to make things work again despite how differently they each live their lives. Although the storyline was pretty good, I thought the main asset of this movie was the cast, especially with the Keanu Reeves cameo. This was a pretty typical rom-com storyline and the chemistry between Ali Wong and Randall Park was definitely…
The documentary film, Room 237, discusses the theories of 5 individuals on the meaning and messages behind The Shining. Throughout Room 237, the individuals did voiceovers on clips related to their theories. I thought that this was an interesting way to format a film because I have not seen a film formatted this way before. One of the theories that stood out the most to me was how Stanley Kubrik was alluding to the terrors of the genocide of Native…