Movie Review: Titane
Titane joins Pulp Fiction, Shoplifters, and Parasite, among many other great films, as a Palme D’Or winner of the Cannes Film Festival, the fest’s greatest …
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Movie Review: Stillwater
Tom McCarthy and Matt Damon have been on a weirdly similar career trajectory since the 2010s started. They both peaked in 2015 (Damon was awesome …
Movie Review: Radioactive
One of the great scientists of the last 100 years was Marie Curie. An early example of a modern, renaissance woman, she had her yellow …
Covid Classics: Cinema Francais…Je T’Aime
In the world of cinema, US centric viewpoints rarely look outside their own borders, unfortunately. And even more unfortunately, when people look, it’s usually a …
Movie Review: Cuties
I fear that Cuties is going to be remembered more for its controversy than all the good its trying to say. For all those people …
Covid Classics: I See London, I see France, I See A Classic Movie Dance
France and the UK have their fare share of amazing classic movies. For this post, I thought it would be fun to have a little …
Movie Review: Les Miserables (2020)
You’ve gotta hand it to the poor French. They produced 3 great films in 2019…only to be outshadowed by a Parasitic global phenomenon. Props are …
Movie Review: I Lost My Body
There’s no way a film like this would make the big screen….which is why streaming services exist. I Lost My Body is a Tim Burton …
Movie Review: 1917
Other than Peter Jackson’s efforts, there hasn’t been a lot of great recent movies about World War I. Well Sam Mendes and Roger Deakins changed …
Movie Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
When you elect to unfurl your story slowly, you’re taking a big risk. Audiences today are used to flash, explosions, and fast moving entertainment. A …