Tag: Social Commentary
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)…
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 »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…
Read More »Colossal: The First Film Examining Millennial Life
Get Out, 2017’s first runaway hit, was a genre film serving as metaphors for larger social issues and with the release of Colossal, this trend has continued into the first 3rd of the year. Colossal uses a monster…
Read More »You Didn’t Understand Batman v Superman
This is a review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition At its core, Batman v Superman is a film about men who are haunted. Haunted by their pasts and their inability to change or atone…
Read More »Get Out: A Transcendent Film
Get Out follows Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams) as they travel to upstate New York to meet her parents Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford). The movie serves as an examination of racism…
Read More »Her: Love in the Age of Technology
“You know it’s..hard for sure. But there’s something that feels so good about sharing your life with somebody.” Her is a brilliant cinematic treatise on love in the age of technology and how human interaction has been affected…
Read More »The Neon Demon: The Cost of Beauty
The Neon Demon is directed by Nicholas Winding Refn and follows Jesse (Elle Fanning) who moves to Los Angeles as a 16 year old to pursue modeling. As she becomes successful, she faces the wrath of other aspiring…
Read More »The Lobster: On Free Will and Searching for Love
The Lobster is a dark comedy/drama set in a dystopian near future where single people are assigned to stay in The Hotel where there must find a mate of similar characteristics within 45 days. If they fail, they…
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Detroit is an Unflinching Look at American Justice
“Past is prologue” In the midst of the tumultuous Detroit riots of 1967, reports of a sniper send Detroit PD, the Michigan State Police, and the National Guard to the Algiers Hotel in search of the shooter. After…
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