Motion Detected (2023) Review: Films that center around artificial intelligence gone rogue make way for interesting perspectives about the man-machine dichotomy and the dynamic overlaps that the two share. A more recent example…
Reviews
The Thief Collector (2023) Review: “To own wealth is to be possessed by it. Stolen assets are not safe anywhere. It can only bring disquiet…forever imprisoning their owner in an insidious embrace.”…
Fast X (2023) Movie Review: When The Fast and the Furious was released in 2001, it quickly became a cult classic because it was ahead of its time. It was an action film…
The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future (2022) Movie Review: Cinematically speaking, if there is one animal that has become the poster child for animal liberation, it is cows. The…
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me (2023) Netflix Documentary Review: ‘Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me,’ directed by Ursula Macfarlane, is a tragic documentary that is now streaming on Netflix.…
Stay Awake (2022) Movie Review: Jamie Sisley is perhaps inadvertently a touch too personal in his depiction of an addict and the people responsible for keeping her afloat. Granted, the indie wrapping…
Essays & Columns
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), the masterwork of Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, is a violent, imaginative, ambiguous fairy tale suspended between the dramatic representation of a dark moment in Iberian history and a…
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Movie Essay: When it comes to the portrayal of women as monsters in modern horror films, we find how their monstrosity is defined mostly in relation to their reproductive…
*The following essay, Roy, Kelly & Rebecca, contains Spoilers from Ted Lasso, Season 3, Episode 2* Recently, ‘Ted Lasso’ cast visited the White House to promote the importance of mental health care.…
End of the Bond Eras of Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig Warning: this article contains spoilers for No Time to Die (2021) Fans are growing impatient as information about the 26th installment…
Charting the Rise of ‘Richsploitation’: Dissolution with the rich and powerful has manifested in a loosely aligned new movement of films and TV shows which aim their scorn at the billionaire class…
Examining Space and Gender in Woman with a Movie Camera (2022): Atal Krishnan’s Woman with a Movie Camera (WWAMC) contextualizes how collectivism facilitates individual healing by fostering sisterhood and sharing of trauma.…
All Posts
House of the Dragon Season 2: Two months ago, HBO announced their decision to reduce the House of the Dragon Season 2 episode order from 10 to 8. The announcement caused significant…
Shanghai Film Festival 2023: The competition list for the 25th-anniversary edition of the Shanghai International Film Festival was released on Monday, May 29, with a strong emphasis on Chinese films from the…
Platonic (Season 1) Episode 4: “Platonic,” on Apple TV+, has its fourth episode streamed today and continues on its remarkably set premise. Building on last week’s three-episode debut, the show continues to…
Ted Lasso (Season 3 Finale) Episode 12: In the same week where the series finale of Succession literally ripped our souls, the Ted Lasso season finale had the opportunity to be the perfect…
Happiness Battle (Season 1), Episode 1: Happiness Battle is a thriller mystery drama that revolves around the lives of mothers who take everything to social media. This show has all the drama…
The Clearing Episode 3: Recap & Ending Explained: Interestingly, “The Clearing” is not precisely what television watchers would expect. Structural analysis of the show would suggest that it is less about the…
High Desert (Season 1) Episode 5 Recap & Ending Explained: ‘High Desert’ previously showed Denny getting out of jail after years of imprisonment. He becomes a burden on Peggy, who does not…
Agra (2023) ‘Cannes’ Review: Nothing quite prepares you for the opening sequence of Kanu Behl’s latest directorial, Agra. Multi-color shapes and patterns bleeding together, tight close-ups of grilled meat, and a dinner scene…
