Author: Garrett Eberhardt
The Bridge on the River Kwai Shows How Pride and Misplaced Sense of Duty Can Lead to Peril
The Bridge on the River Kwai is director David Lean’s classic 1957 World War II epic set in a Japanese POW camp in Burma. The camp is overseen by Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) of the Japanese army. Colonel…
Read More »The Beguiled Hits All the Right Notes
The Beguiled finds Corporal John McBurney, Union soldier during the American Civil War, recovering in an all-girls seminary, after retreating into the Virginia forest during battle after suffering a severe leg injury. John is discovered by student Amy…
Read More »Baby Driver is a Breath of Fresh Air
Baby Driver introduces us to prodigious getaway driver Baby (Ansel Elgort) who because of a traumatic past never stops listening to music and doesn’t say much. Because of a past joyride, Baby is stuck working for crime boss…
Read More »Personal Shopper Burns Slowly but Brightly
Soon after the death of her twin brother Lewis, personal shopper Maureen Cartwright (Kristen Stewart) travels to Paris and attempts to user her ability as a spiritual medium to communicate with him, a power that he also possessed….
Read More »All Eyez on Me Falls Short of Its Subject’s Immense Legacy
All Eyez on Me follows the life of the black James Dean, legendary rapper/actor Tupac “2Pac” Shakur (Demetrius Shipp Jr.). The film follows his life from his birth in New York City to Black Panther activist Afeni Shakur…
Read More »Hounds of Love Shines While Tackling Tough Subject Matter
Hounds of Love takes place in 1987, following serial killer couple John and Evelyn White (Stephen Curry and Emma Booth) in Perth, Australia. While searching for their next victim, they happen upon Vicki Maloney (Ashleigh Cummings), a high…
Read More »It Comes at Night Continues Horror’s Modern Renaissance
As the world is gripped with the spread of a deadly sickness with no cure, former history teacher Paul (Joel Edgerton) establishes a remote home deep in the woods in order to secure his family, wife Sarah (Carmen…
Read More »Wonder Woman is a Gamechanger
Wonder Woman follows the coming of age of Diana (Gal Gadot), Princess of the hidden island paradise Themiscyra. Yearning to become a warrior like the rest of the Amazons on the island, Diana meets Steve Trevor, an American…
Read More »Okja
In Okja, a young girl and granddaughter of a farmer named Mija (Ahn Seo Hyun) spends her time caring for a giant super-pig named Okja, created by the Mirando Corporation. Suddenly, she finds her companion reclaimed by Mondo…
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Beatriz at Dinner Has Something to Say. Loudly.
Beatriz (Salma Hayek) is an immigrant from a village in Mexico, that has since been destroyed, now living in Los Angeles working as an alternative medicinal healer and massage therapist. While stranded at her client Cathy’s (Connie Britton)…
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