No one would be surprised by the notion that youth culture is a driving force in American popular entertainment. It’s an accepted truth, but this idea sits in an interesting place, culture is now shaped by mass media at least as much as it drives any of its trends. This is certainly true for American […]
Month: March 2022
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10 Great Movies To Watch If You Liked “The French Dispatch”
After a release botched by the pandemic that put it on hold for over a year, The French Dispatch has at last arrived at every theater worldwide. The film introduces us to a number of episodic stories recounted by an American journal staff located in a fictional French town. For better or worse, it’s the […]
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10 Good Movies That Could Have Been Great
There are plenty of bad films out there which could have been great, but what about the ones which were only ‘good’ but could have been great? There are many films out there which succeed in one area or another, but for the most part, fall short and end up squandering great opportunities. These films […]
Philosophical Musings: Passing (2021)
While talking with a friend of hers at a dance, Irene (Tessa Thompson) says, “We’re all of us passing for something or other, aren’t we?” It’s the line that stands out the most in the film, the one that universalizes the search for identity and security in our ever shifting experience. Passing is the directorial […]
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All 9 Paul Thomas Anderson Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
The lofty reputation that precedes Paul Thomas Anderson’s name, including all the fervid rhetoric around his films, is simply unmatched by that of any of his contemporaries. For a whole generation that grew up between Blockbuster shelves, arguably no director filled the cinematic void left by the glorious seventies to a greater extent than PTA. […]