Tell someone that you haven’t heard of the latest Marvel blockbuster and they would be hard-pressed to believe you. Even if you are not be interested in watching it, the odds are you will have heard all about it, seen it advertised various times and driven past billboards showing its release date. Of course, any […]
Day: September 29, 2018
Under the Silver Lake – VIFF 2018 Review
“It’s silly wasting time on something that doesn’t matter,” says a dreamy young woman with a fondness for balloons (Grace Van Patten) to an embittered and unemployed young man turned would-be detective named Sam (Andrew Garfield) in writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s surreal new film, Under the Silver Lake. It’s one of those almost throwaway lines […]
Freaks – VIFF 2018 Review
The best part of the overly ambitious sci-fi thriller Freaks is Bruce Dern as a creepy Mr. Snowcone ice cream man. At least, that’s what he appears to be at first, before too much plot overpowers a story that would work well as a graphic novel, but on the big screen it’s too much of […]
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The 10 Most Philosophical Movie Masterpieces of All Time
“Philosophical” is a word used so commonly that its definition merits frequent reinforcement. The word philosophy itself is formed from two Greek words: philo, meaning “love” and sophia meaning “wisdom”. As the love of wisdom, philosophy encompasses far more than a collection of personal opinions and intricate mental gymnastics. Asking more questions than it answers, […]
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The 10 Most Studied Movie Directors of All Time
It goes without saying that a list of only 10 directors couldn’t contain all the great directors that every student or person interested in cinema must take into account so as to have a wider knowledge about cinema, so it’s understandable that there’d discrepancies. Great directors such as Abel Gance, David W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, […]