Tag: Cinematography
Past Lives Powerfully Brings Love to the Big Screen, in All Its Glory and Pain
“If you leave something behind, you gain something too.” Past Lives follows the connection between Na Young (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two children who befriend each other in South Korea but lose contact with each…
Read More »Air is an Old School Crowd Pleasure about Shooting for the Stars
Air retells the story of the endorsement deal that changed fashion and sports when Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) worked within the running shoe athletic company Nike to put all their chips on the table in pursuit of incoming NBA…
Read More »John Wick Chapter 4 Continues the Action Franchise Ascent Into Greatness, Legend
The John Wick series infamously began as a small scale movie that was the verge of being put straight to DVD/on-demand into perhaps the best action film franchise of its time. As movie franchises grow in success and number, it…
Read More »Knock at the Cabin is an Engrossing Thriller That Asks Some Existential Questions
Director M. Night Shyamalan returns to the big screen with his latest film Knock at the Cabin. While couple Andrew (Ben Aldridge) and Eric (Jonathan Groff) are vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods with their young…
Read More »Infinity Pool is an Insane, Psychedelic Portrait of a Man Trying to Regain Control of His Life (Sundance Film Festival)
The world in which we currently live has left meaning of us feeling empty, alone, and unsure of ourselves. People are more anxious than ever as we deal with rising inflation, expensive housing, increasing layoffs, and general uncertainty…
Read More »Saint Omer is an Intimate Examination of How the Challenges of Immigration and Women Intersect
Saint Omer is told from the perspective of Rama (Kayije Kagame), the daughter of African immigrants and a novelist by trade, who attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga), a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter…
Read More »The Theatrical Experience Lives! You’ve Never Seen Anything Like Avatar: The Way of Water (Since the First Avatar)
After years of waiting and speculation, writer/director James Cameron and his Avatar franchise have returned to the big screen. After its monumental achievements in 2009 that included becoming the highest grossing film of all-time and a Best Picture Oscar nomination,…
Read More »Emancipation is a Brutal Film About Perseverance and Determination
Yep, it’s another slave movie. In recent years, many consumers, of all races, have expressed fatigue over the flow of films coming from Hollywood that depict American slavery and the brutal treatment that the ancestors of African Americans…
Read More »Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Improves Upon Its Predecessor in Every Way (Middleburg Film Festival)
For the purpose of providing necessary context to this review, I must admit that I was not a big fan of the original Knives Out film. Benoit Blanc felt like an updated but inferior version of The Thin Man’s Nick…
Read More »
Chevalier is a By-The-Numbers Biopic Saved By Its Cast
Chevalier sets out to tell the true tale of Joseph Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), the illegitimate son of an African slave named Nanon (Ronke Adekoluejo) and French plantation owner George Bologne (Jim High). After his father recognizes his…
Share this: