Prisoners is a carefully-paced, intelligently-crafted crime thriller, with landscapes (created by the wonderful Roger Deakins) that bleed with nihilistic bleakness, imparting a haunting sense of eeriness throughout. What makes Prisoners a notch-above competent thrillers is its ending – without dialogue or further exposition, the metaphors speak for themselves, as they often do, in art, and in life.
Essay on John Patrick Shanley’s directed ‘Doubt’: Since the dawn of mankind, there have been a plethora of elusive mysteries surrounding humans. The objectivity required to understand the scope and manifestation of…
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) – commonly referred to as the Mormon Church – has a vibrant and expansive missionary program. Young people between 18 and 24 years…
Quo vadis, Aida? Review: July 1995, Bosnia. An announcement, on the speaker or radio, says that the town has “deadly shells” landing on it every second. The hospital it is announced in…
In writer/director Kent Jones’s first narrative feature film, a woman is shown running around town in her car doing errands. We are just thrown into the life of Diane who seems to…