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Kanyadaan (1968) Review: Love Bound by Belief

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2021 Reviews

The Little Things Movie Review (2021) | Artful, Inventive, and Unexpected

By scottshak on Sunday, May 9, 2021

Some movies tend to walk on a very standard tightrope. You know you have to walk straight. But The Little Things movie is just the exact opposite. You are forced to tread on a string that seems quite straightforward in the beginning, you know, like your average whodunnit thriller and whether you would be able …

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Nomadland Movie Review (2020) | Poses Existential Question – Analysis

By scottshak on Saturday, April 17, 2021

What an incredible movie Nomadland is! Chloé Zhao has created a masterpiece based on Jessica Bruder‘s book. It does a thorough perspicacious examination of the lives of Nomads of the RV culture in America, through a third-person perspective of its protagonist Frances McDormand who, by the way, is absolutely fantastic in her role as Fern. …

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Ammonite Movie Analysis (2020): Politics Above Accuracy

By Jillian Oliver on Thursday, April 15, 2021

Doing the movie analysis for Ammonite this time. Ammonite (2020) professes to be biographical or based on a true story, but it actually bends the truth to where it would be revisionist to call it anything but fiction. The trouble I have with Ammonite is that it doesn’t celebrate paleontologist Mary Anning’s life and work …

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Celebrating the Top Three Women Directors From Early Hollywood

By Jillian Oliver on Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Over the many decades of film history, we’ve come to acknowledge the great directors and pioneers of film as being mostly men: Alfred Hitchcock, George Cukor, and James Cameron, to name a few. But few people outside of academia look back to the early days of film, where women like Alice Guy-Blaché, Mabel Normand, and …

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Release the Snyder Cut Movement | The Story of Zack Snyder

By scottshak on Tuesday, March 30, 2021

What an insane victory! Release the Snyder Cut Movement finally comes to fruition. It has been an emotional joyride, and what a ride has it been. I often revisit the time when I first saw the 2017 version of Justice League considering it to be wholly Zack Snyder’s movie. As I watched it, I had …

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2020 Reviews

Lost Girls Review (2020): A Frightening Glimpse at an Unsolved Case

By Jillian Oliver on Monday, March 29, 2021

Writing the Lost Girls review today with an appalling yet unsatiated appetite. The movie will entangle you in a case that remains a frustrating mystery. With a body count in the double digits, the Long Island serial killings remain one of the top unsolved cases in the U.S. This dramatization of true events will likely …

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Wrong Turn 2021 Movie Review: A Stressful Trek on an Unending Path

By Jillian Oliver on Sunday, March 21, 2021

Wrong Turn (2021) starts out as a fairly conventional horror flick, only to take us on a few unexpected turns along with the ill-fated group of hikers. While horror fans might not see anything too original (since it is more of a reboot of the original Wrong Turn series) in this grisly adventure, it’s a …

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Big Fish Movie 2003 Analysis | Fiction as a Source of Inspiration for Reality

By scottshak on Saturday, March 20, 2021

Big Fish Movie (2003) defies the very well-known fact that every work of fiction is inspired by reality, and points out that there are some unusual occasions when fiction becomes the source of inspiration for reality. This movie is one of those unusual occasions. Watching Tim Burton‘s Big Fish 2003 is like being transported to …

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Drive Movie 2011 Analysis | Search for a Real Human Being, a Real Hero

By scottshak on Monday, March 15, 2021

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 …

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American Murder The Family Next Door Documentary Review (2020)

By Jillian Oliver on Sunday, March 14, 2021

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 …

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