Unlike most movies out there, Drive movie 2011 is a narrative based more on sensorial experiences than dialogues from the characters. Throughout the movie, we can find many scenes of non-verbal communication, in a sense that communication takes place not so much in words but in images, sounds, and songs as expressions that its director …
In this age where true crime content is ubiquitous, one story stands out this year for being more evident to the public on social media. With the Watts family murder, their social media presence made their lives accessible and relatable to their followers, creating a kind of chronicle through which people could see the progression …
Having come from Wonder Woman 2017, I’d say 1984 ended up being somewhat of a letdown. I felt the movie to be deliberately putting on a face. It is trying to portray Wonder Woman in a very different light it had started its original sojourn on. The 1984 version kind of gives her an image …
Movie depictions of mental illness don’t often come with much accuracy, let alone sensitivity. Fear of Rain does a solid job of creating a suspenseful atmosphere with its protagonist, Rain, who suffers from schizophrenia, while also drawing attention to the stigmas that surround people with such disorders. Despite its occasional clumsiness and reliance on cliches, …
As I write the Soul movie review today, I am thinking how many times I have said this before – Pixar has a knack for picking the most fulfilling stories. Ascertaining it yet again, the animation studio walks in with another enriching and alluring tale addressing one of the major issues every soul across the …
The Rebecca movie analysis I am about to pen down is based on my knowledge of all the Rebecca versions that I have had the good hap of coming across. Critics of the 2020 remake of Rebecca gave it overwhelmingly negative reviews. With Rotten Tomatoes reaching a consensus that the remake does not live up …
Incendies movie is based on the 2003 play of the same name by Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad. In Montreal, twins Jeanne and Simon are given two letters by the notary following the death of their mother Nawal Marwan. A letter must be given to their father whom they never knew and believed to be dead …
If Southern Gothic is defined by peculiar characters and macabre goings-on set largely in the postbellum South, then The Devil All the Time neatly fits into this sub-genre. With twisted, unstable preachers, nescient young women, a corrupt sheriff, and a sexually deviant, murderous couple, we’re taken on a road that’s dark and winding. Like the …
The Dig (2021) slips us inside the archaeologist’s mind and elegantly converges past and present. Graceful imagery of the English countryside adorns the film; a romance grows while another is severed before it sprouts, and archaeology becomes about more than artifacts in and of themselves. The film successfully connects the distant past to the individual …
The documentary, MLK/FBI (2021), persuades us to take a closer look at the man and the icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his shaky relationships within the U.S. government. The documentary is rich with crisp archival footage that draws us into the unsettling story of the FBI’s attempt to gather evidence on Dr. King …