Tag: Historical
Cold War Depicts an All-Too Common Tainted Love Affair
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** “You’re the drug running through my veins……and the crash right after.” Cold War follows the relationship between two Polish lovers, Zula (Joanna Kulig) and Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) in postwar Europe. The pair embark upon…
Read More »The Favourite Explores The Nexus of Power, Sex, and Love
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** The Favourite finds us in 18th century England during a time of war with the French. Leading England at this time is Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), a sick and impressionable queen lacking self confidence,…
Read More »Operation Finale Features One Great Performance Amidst a Familiar Backdrop
Operation Finale takes place in 1960, fifteen years after the end of World War II. By this time, Israel’s Mossad has been hunting escaped Nazis who have retreated to attempt to live their lives in secret across the…
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 »Chappaquiddick Brings Both the Truth, and the Pressure of Expectations, to Light
Chappaquiddick follows the true story surrounding the events of the tragic accident involving then Senator Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old campaign strategist and family friend of the Kennedy family. On July 18, 1969 while vacationing on Chappaquiddick…
Read More »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…
Read More »Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Examines the Taboos that Have Always Been
“We are a fantasy but we have to live in reality. And in this world, in these lives, love does not matter.” Professor Marston and the Wonder Women introduces us to Harvard psychologist and inventor Dr. William Moulton…
Read More »A Quiet Passion, a Quiet Biopic
“But you have a life, I have a routine. Those of us deprived of a certain kind of love know how to starve ourselves. We deceive ourselves then deceive others. The worst kind of lie.” A Quiet Passion…
Read More »The Lost City of Z: Old Hollywood Returns for One Special Engagement
“You’ve come to doubt its existence.” “No. I only doubt it could provide the answers you seek from it.” The Lost City of Z delves into destiny and what effect pursuit of it can have on one’s life….
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Roma Examines The Societal Barriers That Separate Women and What Can Unite Them
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** “We are alone. No matter what they tell you, we women, we are always alone.” Roma follows a wealthy family and their nanny Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) in 1970s Mexico City as both try to…
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