Around two weeks ago, I semi-re-watched the film In the Mood For Love by legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kai-war. I started watching the movie a few months ago, sometime in September. Still, I only got halfway through the film before stopping and never really got back to finishing it. I eventually gave up on finishing it and decided it...
On the coast of Greece, near the island of Kea, beneath the shimmering blue waters of the Mediterranean, there lies a wreck of a once graceful ship that has remained there since November 21st, 1916. Once meant to be the grandest ship ever to sail on the Atlantic, she never got to live the live the life that was...
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With stunning cinematography, complex character development, and themes of moral ambiguity, Better Call Saul, the spin-off prequel to the popular TV show Breaking Bad, has been hailed as a masterpiece in its own right.
The show follows Jimmy McGill, masterfully played by Bob Odenkirk, as the show tracks his descent from struggling lawyer to criminal lawyer and con-man Saul Goodman,...
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The relationship between an actor and their director is a very interesting one. It is a relationship that can only go as far as both sides are willing to take it. In many ways the relationship relays on both to give everything they got, in order to succeed. An actor can act only as good...
"We're not computers, we're physical. I think, therefore I am." These words are spoken in the famous movie Blade Runner by a Replicant, a synthetically created humanoid designed to replicate human behavior, thought, and action. Those words, rooted in philosophical thought on human life and its characteristics, pose a fundamental question in Blade Runner: what does it mean to be human?
Blade Runner...
In no other place can racism project itself across so many people’s minds. Movies captivate young and old, man and woman, black and white. Viewed by millions upon millions and telling a wide variety of stories, movies have passed on the ideologies of their makers or the stereotypes of peoples, inadvertently or not, throughout history. In this way, movies...
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As the white shower curtains are drawn back, and the awaiting outline of the shady attacker wields his knife aloft, the iconic shriek of violins paired with the scream of sheer terror of has encapsulated cinema fanatics and casual movie watchers alike for decades. Everyone has...
The Oscars are Hollywood’s night to celebrate great accomplishments in film over the past year, and every year the film industry’s elite gather inside the Dolby Theater to participate in the ceremony. This year’s Oscars was full of surprises, one of the largest being the fact that nearly all of the nominees were white. Even with the threat of...
