A longing for independence, direction, and a youthful exhilaration are at the crux of Chloé Zhao piercingly sad yet stunningly beautiful debut feature, Songs My Brothers Taught Me. As it’s lyrical handle suggest, there’s an austere approach to Zhao’s portrait of life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and the story is […]
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30 Forgotten American Movies From The 1990s Worth Your Time
The nineties were a great time for movies. Was it the time of high discovery and boundary-pushing artistic movements that defined the films of the seventies? Maybe not to most elite film enthusiasts, but one thing the nineties did undeniably have in its movies was variety. There were movies being put out in theatres that […]
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The 20 Best Movies About Divorce
Divorce is a very stressful event in anybody’s life and has been dramatized in attempts to show its harsh consequences on the familial relationship and it has been hilariously made light of through screwball comedies and satirical pieces. There have also been completely realistic films, heart-breaking films, frustrating films, depressingly funny films and many more. […]
10 Great Kids Movies with a Social Message
With the latest release of Inside out, kids movies with a social message had a huge revival. When making this list we we’re surprised on how many movies actually contains big social messages that not only applies to kids but grown ups like ourselves as well. These 10 movies had knowing or unknowing a big […]
Experimenter – VIFF 2015 Review
Somber yet simultaneously mischievous, Michael Almereyda’s (Nadja) latest and most vigorous picture yet, Experimenter, is a visually and verbally spellbinding showpiece. Beginning in 1961 at Yale, renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) wielded the baton on a series of psychological experiments in which subjects believed they were administering electrical shocks to an amiable and […]
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15 Great Psychological Movies About Duality Worth Your Time
Alex Ross Perry’s new film Queen of Earth, a weird homage to the 1960s and 1970s psychodramas, had me thinking about this niche genre. It is a challenge to define. These are films that depict a psychological state through visual symbolism, a subjective camera or an unreliable narrator. Oftentimes these films play off of the […]