Category:

Movies that Changed the World

Person sitting in front of television screen
January 8, 2020

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 […]

Read More

10 Best Classic Action Movies

February 20, 2019

Comparatively speaking, action movies are a fairly recent type of movie genre. Action wasn’t really popularized until the 1970s. Since then, there have been tons of films made in this style. Action movies have popular themes like spies, superheroes and more. Below are some of our favorites and what we think are some of the […]

Read More

There and Back Again: From the General to the Fury Road

Poster of Mad Max Fury Road and The General
September 18, 2016

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 […]

Read More

A24: New Eyes on Old Tales

A24 New eyes on old tales
August 31, 2016

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 […]

Read More

That’s What I’m Talking About: Linklater’s Still Dazed, Not Confused

Everybody wants some tape
August 21, 2016

“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 […]

Read More

Swiss Army Man: Utilities and Futilities

Swiss Army Man film
July 28, 2016

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 […]

Read More