Anyone of the opinion that 2015 was a mediocre year at the multiplex just wasn’t looking hard enough. Why even narrowing the titles down to a workable 30 titles was no small feat – I cringe at the many worthy films that didn’t make the cut – and a cursory glance at the titles assembled […]
Author: Shane Scott-Travis
Movie Review: The Hateful Eight (2015)
Note: This review contains no spoilers. With his signature shrewd repartee and gleefully OTT violence, Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, The Hateful Eight, is a grisly and gratifying ensemble article that doubles as chamber piece. Revisiting and reworking the Western genre for a second time, after 2012’s Django Unchained, Tarantino’s latest communiqué from the American frontier […]
Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Note: This review contains no spoilers. True, the hype for J.J. Abrams’ (Lost, Super 8) Jedi rejoinder has been inescapable, and just this side of nauseating if you’re not a devotee of the highly valued space opera. Under considerable pressure to outperform originator George Lucas’ lackluster prequels (Episodes I to III) and return to the […]
Movie Review: Carol (2015)
Love is a crime in Todd Haynes’ (Safe, I’m Not There) intelligent, agonizing, and incredible new film, Carol. Part revisionist melodrama and postmodernist Douglas Sirk-style weepie, Carol is adapted by Phyllis Nagy (Mrs. Harris) from Patricia Highsmith’s (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley) 1952 pulp novel, The Price of Salt, itself a decidedly […]
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The 30 Best Movies About Unrequited Love
Lost causes, broken hearts, one-side love, and misunderstandings are occurrences that are sadly familiar for most anyone, and this may be at the crux for their attraction to the silver screen as well. The following list looks at some of the crowning examples of unrequited love in film, though it’s not nor does it try […]
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The 25 Best Movies About Voyeurism
The term “voyeurism” often denotes certain connotations bracketed with perversion, and often of a sexual nature. When we hear that something is voyeuristic our knee-jerk reaction usually, and inaccurately, involves a sexual deviant, maybe with binoculars, spying on pillow-fighting coeds perhaps. But voyeurism, in a broader definition, details any type of surveillance or espionage, and […]