Archive for Movies

Film is a powerful platform. This art form plays with our emotions, exposes us to new situations and can even change our perspective on the world around us. Sometimes films don’t need a huge budget to tell a story. Directors and filmmakers around the world can take an idea and bring it to life using […]

Since the inception of the motion picture, movement has dictated how the audience perceives this medium of art. From the first showings of the Lumiere brothers’  ‘Workers leaving a Factory’ to the modern reality-bending epics of today like Alfonso Cauron’s Gravity, our minds and emotions are moved metaphorically by the literal depictions that are on […]

In recent time major motion pictures have been in the shadow of itself. Movie franchises are the rule of the spring/summer docket.  Coming to a multiplex near you is a sequel, prequel, live-action remake, and a soft or hard reboot of your favorite movie series, whether you like it or not. Half a billion dollar […]

“We came for a good time, not a long time” -Charlie Willoughby Richard Linklater’s 1994 Dazed and Confused showed a day-in-the-life of outgoing middle schoolers and high school seniors and the ensuing fun they had before having responsibilities and adulthood thrust upon them. For audiences that was the assumption. Everyone drives off to the Aerosmith […]

In Tom Hank’s 2000 drama Cast Away we see the allegory of a well-adjusted business man thrown into the throngs of seclusion on a desert island. By the way of washed up luggage and a lot of MacGyver style tool making he manages to break from his tropical prison. But what if all Hanks had […]