The most famous depiction of the most famous all-girls college in the world is about the impairment of meaning, or, “What is the opposite of carpe diem?”.
Dead Poets Society (1989) will inevitably come to your mind when Mona Lisa Smile (2003) is mentioned. However, in this essay, I will argue as to why the latter is your favourite.
DPS grapples with the enthusiasm of how literature (and by extension poetry) will change your life for the better when you…
When asked why he posed as an FBI agent to steal a car, Bill O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), while also sheepish, is physically unable to look the agent in the eye; blood drips down his face and onto the floor, obscuring his vision.
This opening scene, director Shaka King says, is what establishes one of the core messages of “Judas and the Black Messiah,” his complex historical drama about a part of America’s Black Power movement in the 1960s. If you…
I watched this among 9 people, the same number as the Fellowship. It was a watch party on the 21st of October (3 days before Frodo wakes up in Rivendell, in the house of Elrond).
There was elven food (lembas bread in banana leaves), a feast (hobbitlike), much ale (happy hobbitlike, really), and there were happy pockets of laughing, and there was love.
You see, there can only be love in honesty, in trust, in truth. The Fellowship is great…
The genius behind Heat (1995) brings the muskiness of ruthless hope into a dialogue-less climax on a cliff, set to a full 8 minutes of climbing and rising notes in the musical theme of “The Gael”.
(The whole movie I thought DDL was the LAST of the Mohicans. No. No, he was not.
It was the other guy.)
