Tag: Cinematography
Bad Times at the El Royale’s Momentary Thrills Can’t Save It
Bad Times at the El Royale takes place in a formerly luxurious motel that is now down on its luck run-down hotel that sits on the border between California and Nevada. One fateful night, seven strangers, Father Flynn…
Read More »First Man Reignites the Wonder and Awe of Space While Cementing Damien Chazelle as Perhaps Hollywood’s Greatest Director
“[Space Exploration] allows us to see things that maybe we should’ve seen a long time ago.” First Man is the latest film from Oscar winning director Damien Chazelle, a biopic following astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) as he…
Read More »Hold the Dark Makes a Statement about Man’s Brutal Nature but Does So Too Quietly
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** “When resources are scarce or when there are unnatural stressors, the young will be killed in order to preserve the pack. It’s called savaging.” Hold the Dark takes us to a fictional remote village…
Read More »Alpha is the Most Visually Stunning Film of the Year (So Far) with an Equally Beautiful Story of Compassion
“He leads with his heart. Not his spear.” Alpha is a historical fiction origin tale of the domestication of the first wolf by human hands. The film follows Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee), the son of Tau (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson),…
Read More »Innovative, Thrilling, and Diverse, Searching is This Year’s Breath of Fresh Air at the Movies
In Searching, David Kim (John Cho) is left to pick up the pieces of his and his daughter Margot’s (Michelle La) lives following the death of his wife Pamela (Sara Sohn) from cancer. After going to a classmate’s home to…
Read More »Crazy Rich Asians Critiques Image Consciousness While Expanding the Wonder of Film to a Wider Audience
In Crazy Rich Asians, Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) is set to fly to Singapore with her boyfriend Nick (Henry Golding) to attend his best friend’s wedding, and finally meet his family. On their way from New York to…
Read More »BlacKkKlansman Focuses on the Enduring Duality of Being Both a Minority and an American
Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) was hired as the first African-American police officer for the Colorado Springs Police Department in the 1970s. After being promoted to the intelligence unit, Stallworth sets out to infiltrate the Colorado Springs chapter…
Read More »Blindspotting is a Tour de Force, Balancing Seriousness and Comedy while Examining Identity in a Changing World
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** In Blindspotting, Collin (Daveed Diggs) is serving the final three days of his probation term, anxious for a fresh start as he works his job as a mover alongside his childhood best friend, Miles…
Read More »Through Deliberate Storytelling and Tense Scares, Hereditary Firmly Sticks in Audiences’ Heads
Hereditary follows the Graham family, father Steve (Gabriel Byrne), mother Annie (Toni Collette), son Peter (Alex Wolff), and daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro) in the wake of the death of the family’s matriarch, their grandmother Ellen. As the family…
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Uniquely Shot and Constructed with a Dose of Social Commentary, Mandy is Why We Love Film
Mandy follows couple Red Miller (Nicolas Cage) and Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough) who live in the remote wilderness of the Pacific Northwest in 1983. Their tranquil existence is upended when cult leader Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache) drives past…
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