Tag: Drama
Molly’s Game Displays Aaron Sorkin’s Promise as a Director
Molly’s Game is based on the true story of Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a former Olympic hopeful skier who while working in LA before law school ended up organizing high-stakes poker games including clientele like movie stars, professional…
Read More »Phantom Thread Stumbles Down the Runway
Phantom Thread takes us into 1950s London as world renowned clothier Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) runs his studio House of Woodcock alongside his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville). Reynolds soon meets young waitress Alma (Vicky Krieps) who becomes his…
Read More »Downsizing Comes to a Fork in the Road and Takes the Wrong Path
Wherever you go there you are After a scientific breakthrough where scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall as a solution to overpopulation, Paul (Matt Damon) and his wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig) decide to throw…
Read More »All The Money in the World Gets to the Root of All Evil
All the Money in the World is the retelling of the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the saga to recover the teenager from his Italian kidnappers. After his mother Gail Harris (Michelle Williams)…
Read More »I, Tonya Challenges What You Think You Know In Its Portrayal of the Cycle of Abuse
“I was loved. I can’t describe how that felt.” I, Tonya is a biopic that delves into the life of infamous former figure skater Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) from her upbringing in Portland, Oregon under the heavy-hand of…
Read More »The Shape of Water Brings the Fairy Tale into Adulthood
“Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love. It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere.” The Shape of Water follows Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins),…
Read More »Darkest Hour Dazzles Visually Amidst Gary Oldman’s Virtuoso Performance
“Those who never change their minds never change anything.” After finally achieving his lifelong dream of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) is immediately thrust into facing the country’s most turbulent situation in its…
Read More »Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: The Great (but flawed) American Novel
After seven months of silence regarding the investigation into her daughter’s brutal murder, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) rents three billboards alongside a road on the outskirts of the small, southern town of Ebbing, Missouri. The signs chastise police…
Read More »Lady Bird Examines the Tug and Pull of Mother-Daughter Relationships Amid Income Inequality
Lady Bird follows Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) in early 2000s Sacramento as she prepares for college amidst her senior year of high school and journey to self-discovery as a teenager transitioning to young adulthood. Through an…
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The Post Hopes to Guide Us Toward Our Future Through Examination of Our Past
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. – Matthew 6:24…
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