Judgement (Simpan, 1999) Review: “Why would you all wish this dead girl to be your kid? Wouldn’t you wish it was someone else’s kid and your daughter is still alive if you…
Tag: 1990
12 Monkeys (1995) Explained: “The movie never changes. It can’t change. But every time you see it, it seems different because you’re different,” muses the central character, James Cole – a disoriented…
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) Movie Ending Explained & Themes Analyzed: In 1999, Martin Scorsese made “Bringing out the Dead”, a psychological drama adapted (by Paul Schrader) from Joe Connelly’s book of…
Jacob’s Ladder Movie Ending Explained & Themes Analyzed: According to the Bible (Book of Genesis, 28:10-19), “Jacob’s Ladder” refers to a meeting place between Earth and Heaven. Dreamt of by the patriarch…
Spielberg (2017): Modest Storyteller vs The Spectacle: Let us begin by talking about Duel (1971); I feel Duel is a great metaphor for Steven Spielberg’s stature as a filmmaker. He is a…
Aki Kaurismäki’s ‘The Match Factory Girl’, the concluding film in the Proletariat Trilogy, opens with a batch process of match stick manufacture and packaging. A big log sliced into thin sheets, chopped into thousand…