Perfectionist, slick, cerebral, visionary… Some would say he’s methodical to a fault, a certified workaholic whose films tread the narrow line between edgy pretentiousness and genius self-awareness. The jury is still out on him, but if there’s something certain with David Fincher is that with him you get the whole package, a thorough professional that’ll […]
Lists are for groceries. At least, that’s what Denis Villeneuve stated during an interview with the New York Times in which he was prompted to name his favorite movies of the century. The French-Canadian director explained that he’s decided not to judge films but to champion them instead, and one can’t fault him for his […]
As one of the brightest directors to come out of East-Asia at the turn of the millennium, Bong Joon-ho’s name has experienced a meteoric rise ever since his last movie was released. Parasite made history sweeping some of the most important international awards and becoming the first South Korean film to be honored with the […]
Buddy-cop is a loose genre that is characterized for featuring two or more members of the police force (or law enforcement in general) who bond together as they solve a mystery or hunt down criminals. One defining trope is that they tend to have clashing personalities, with contrasting ages, background and demeanors as they both […]
Elliot Gould’s 1970’s career is one that can be paralleled to the other seminal actors of the era due to the amount of quality films he made in just a decade. Many of the characters he plays are not the typical strong and loyal hero, but something leaning more towards the anti-hero or even slacker […]
The haves and the have-nots is a story theme as old as time itself. For as long as humans have been living in society, there have been people with a lot and people with a little. Within the past few years, democratic socialism, the wealth gap, income inequality, and complex discussions about sex, gender, and […]