Here isn’t a film that plays by familiar rules. In Robert Zemeckis’s latest, you’re not going to find a straightforward plot or a neatly packaged resolution. Instead, you get a single room—one room through centuries—and in this space, life unfolds. Different people, different times, same place. Here wants to be a tribute to the idea…
Pedro Páramo is not your typical ghost story—it’s an experience that feels like walking through a half-remembered nightmare. Rooted in Juan Rulfo’s novel, this adaptation captures something elusive, like whispers from a long-abandoned town that still aches with the memories of its past sins. The film isn’t loud about its themes, nor does it spoon-feed…
A Quiet Triumph in Indie Filmmaking In a world that often demands grand gestures and epic narratives, I Like Movies stands out not for its ambition to dazzle, but for its quiet sincerity. Chandler Levack’s debut feature is a far cry from the typical teen comedies that dominated the 2000s, a genre often populated with…
Reflections on The Graduates: A Film About Grief, Memory, and Quiet Moments In a world that often rushes us past loss and asks us to mask our sorrow, The Graduates does something remarkable: it slows everything down, encourages a deeper look, and gives us room to sit with what hurts. Directed by Hannah Peterson, this…
There’s something haunting, almost sacred, about the way The Piano Lesson unfolds on screen—a reverence woven through every scene like it’s all wrapped in memory, a testament to where we come from and the people we’re bound to by blood and time. This isn’t your typical movie experience. It’s a blend of the theatrical and…
There’s something about Last Days of the Space Age that feels like walking through a house where every room is partially furnished but none of them make sense together. It starts slow, like a train easing out of the station, but instead of gathering speed, it never quite leaves the tracks. The show tries to…
There’s a certain magnetic pull when you watch Sophie Turner take on the role of Joan Hannington in the British drama Joan. The tension she creates with Frank Dillane feels like something you can almost reach out and touch, and yet, beneath the crackling chemistry, there’s this ever-present thread of mistrust. They dance around each…
Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets—what can be said that hasn’t already been spilled across decades of reviews, essays, and retrospectives? It’s not your typical gangster flick, and that’s putting it lightly. No glamorous mafioso sitting on a leather chair pontificating over loyalty and honor. No guns blazing in some operatic, slow-motion ballet. This is something messier,…
The Battle of Algiers isn’t your run-of-the-mill war movie. It doesn’t ask you to sit back, watch the explosions, and cheer for the heroes. Instead, it’s a film that pulls you into the thick of things, makes you squirm a bit, and doesn’t let you walk away with easy answers. It’s about the Algerian struggle…
Some films have this uncanny way of reaching into the deep places of your heart without you realizing it — they draw out your own half-buried memories and present them back to you, dressed in a different story. That’s what Lady Bird feels like. From the very first scene, with the dramatic leap out of…