Tag: Social Commentary
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Is a Satire Whose Flat Humor Undercuts It Entirely (Sundance Film Festival)
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. aims to satirize how confining, empty, and hypocritical religion can be. Whether it be how it stifles human sexuality and women as an entire class with its with misogynistic tendencies, or how the…
Read More »Breaking Gives Light to Veterans’ Struggles in John Boyega’s Best Performance (Sundance Film Festival)
Everyone has their breaking point. We all have experienced feeling unappreciated and put upon by someone or something, especially when it comes to bureaucracies or other systems nationwide. Perhaps no group feels this more than America’s veterans, people…
Read More »Emily The Criminal Tensely Covers All the Bases of the Socioeconomic Plight of Millennials (Sundance Film Festival)
The plight of the Millennial generation is an oft discussed and written about topic in media. Having lived through world changing events, multiple recessions and economic catastrophes, and faced with an uncertain ecological future, the struggles these now…
Read More »Resurrection Has Decent Psychological Thrills, but Rebecca Hall is the Clear Raison d’Etre (Sundance Film Festival)
Unresolved trauma can have an indelible effect on someone’s life even if they appear to have it all together on the surface. A new film starring Rebecca Hall uses the psychological thriller to examine just how extensively our…
Read More »Jordan Peele’s Ability to Convey Fear and Dread Hit The Mark, but the Thematic Exploration? Nope.
Writer/director/producer Jordan Peele is back in theaters with his much awaited third film, Nope. One of the few name brand directors left in Hollywood, audiences are eager to see his latest horror thriller reuniting him with Academy Award winner…
Read More »Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack Charm in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Sundance Film Festival)
Self-discovery is usually something that we associate with young adulthood, a time for exploration and finding out what makes us tick and what we like. But certain cultural mores and life’s roadblocks bring some to this point later…
Read More »Men Has Something to Say Without Saying Anything New at All
Director Alex Garland has quickly established himself as a skillful writer/director of science fiction with films such as Ex Machina and Annihilation. He makes his anticipated return to the big screen, this time returning to the horror genre….
Read More »On The Count of Three Melds Humor and a Serious Examination of Depression and Hopelessness in Thrilling Fashion (Sundance Film Festival)
We currently live in a time where people nationwide are struggling through a myriad of problems, from financial to mental to a combination of many issues. These hard times are leading many on a path toward self destruction…
Read More »Master Should Spell the End of “Being Black in America is the Real Horror!” Horror Films (Sundance Film Festival)
The 2017 release of Get Out felt like such an event. A true cultural reset where a genre that traditionally has been known for ridding itself of its black characters before you got halfway through your bucket of…
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Don’t Worry Darling, Message Filmmaking Will Hopefully Course Correct Soon
In our increasingly polarized country, people are increasingly feeling as if they have to dig their heels into the political landscape and choose a side. At times, it feels as if political polarization has slowly seeped into every…
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