Month: November 2018
Burning’s Intriguing Mystery Cannot Overcome It’s Overwhelmingly Slow Pace
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** Burning follows a young Korean man named Lee Jong-soo (Ah-In Yoo) who works as a delivery boy to make ends meet while his farmer father stands trial for an assault case. While making deliveries,…
Read More »Boy Erased Explores the Crossroads of Love and Religious Repression
Boy Erased is a film based on the true story of Garrard Eamons (Lucas Hedges), the son of a small-town Baptist pastor Marshall (Russell Crowe), who is struggling with his burgeoning homosexuality and how it squares with the…
Read More »Suspiria Haunts the Arthouse
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** “A mother is a woman who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” Suspiria is an ambitious re-imagining of Dario Argento’s 1977 cult classic horror film of…
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Widows Spins a Thrilling Heist Film into Social Commentary about Grief and the Mistreatment of Women
“The only thing that matters is to survive. Look around you, it’s like Custer’s last stand; kill, or be killed.” Widows follows three women in Chicago, Veronica (Viola Davis), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez), and Alice (Elizabeth Debicki) after a…
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