Drama
Film Review – The Danish Girl
Soon after Eddie Redmayne picked up a Best Actor Oscar for The Theory of Everything, an image of Redmayne dressed up as a woman was shared online. It was for his next project, The Danish Girl, and it pretty much became known then that this…
READ MOREFilm Review – Youth
Italian Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) wrote and directed Youth, a film that examines growing old for a couple of characters, both of which are famous. Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine) is a retired, well-known composer. Mick Boyle (Harvey Keitel) is a famous film writer and director.…
READ MOREAn Analysis – The Legacy of Star Wars
The legacy of Star Wars is so large that it has surpassed the films themselves. Toys, lunch boxes, shirts, books, comics, video games, cereal – the list goes on and on. The following this franchise has is unlike anything we’ve seen. Just about everybody who…
READ MOREFilm Review – Macbeth
Ahh, good old William Shakespeare. In all of history, Shakespeare stands as one of the most adapted writers. At this point, it’s redundant to even go into how he influenced the countless writers, actors, and directors on both the stage and the big screen. Every…
READ MOREFilm Review – Spotlight
Spotlight‘s greatest strength is showing that investigative journalism is a lot of work and that secrets have many layers where the answer can be right in front of you and sometimes it is merely a lack of action that can cause the truth to remain…
READ MOREFilm Review – Asthma
You ever have a movie where you want to scream at the screen everything that is bugging you about what is happening? If so, Asthma is the film for you! There is a vibe we get off of a film where we can sense what kind of…
READ MOREFilm Review – Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a film about beginnings and endings within a young Irish immigrant’s life, and her struggle to experience it all, to be in and of everything she does rather than let things happen or follow the accepted order of events for a woman of…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Good Dinosaur
After the critical success of Inside Out, Pixar Animation Studios returns with the second outing of 2015, The Good Dinosaur. While Inside Out is considered to be one of the very best films the animation studio has put out, this prehistoric tale feels like the…
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