The Girl King
The Girl King (2015) is a biographical drama following Christina, Queen of Sweden (Malin Buska) dudring her ten year reign. In those ten years she advocates reforms in Swedish education… Read more »
Tag: 2010s
The Disaster Artist
It seems only natural to me that the man behind The Ape (2005) would find a natural sort of kinship with Tommy Wiseau the creator of the cult phenomenon The… Read more »
Above Us Only Sky
What does Michael Epstein’s Above Us Only Sky (2019) give us Lennon fans? We get to see a lot of the same Steve Gebhardt footage that went into Gimme Some… Read more »
Drive
Any cinephile on social media has seen Nicolas Winding Refn teasing an upcoming 4K Ultra-HD release of Drive (2011). I remember when Drive came out that I didn’t expect it… Read more »
Rough Night
Lucia Aniello’s Rough Night (2017) has really taken quite a beating from critics. It isn’t a great movie, but it isn’t bad. I remember seeing this at a theater in… Read more »
The Dark Knight Rises
Who is Catwoman? In the Batman Comics, she’s a femme fatale, wielding a whip, always changing allegiances, yet always flirting with her romantic interest that would otherwise be her nemesis…. Read more »
The Master
Compared with the cartoonish antics of Wes Anderson or the “realist” fantasies of Christopher Nolan, P.T. Anderson’s films, particularly those he has made in this century, exhibit an understanding of… Read more »
Wuthering Heights
For Andrea Arnold the Gothic exists in the atmosphere, mood, and imagination of a locale. Thrushcross Grange and other Yorkshire locations impose the wonder of the supernatural into every frame…. Read more »
Mildred Pierce
Todd Haynes has tried his hand at a variety of styles and narrative approaches. From Poison (1991) to I’m Not There (2007) his cinematic style has proven to be as… Read more »
She Said Boom
fifth column: a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.(dictionary definition) Dick Hebdige marks the beginning of “punk”… Read more »
