Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Op-eds

Shorts Review (Fantastic Fest): ‘Fantastic Shorts’ Nails the Fantastic Feeling

We are trapped. In the year 2020, or when we assume that we would have 20/20 vision on things, we are forced to march through life blindfolded as COVID-19 dismantles and shreds...

Second Chances: Moulin Rouge!

Where and when we watch movies are crucial to how much we enjoy them. By rewatching a film, our opinion on it can drastically change. We can appreciate things we never saw...

Op-ed: A Brief Journey Through German Expressionism

As one of the earliest movements in film history, German Expressionism had an immediate and lasting impact on cinema. With films appearing primarily in the 1920s and early 1930s, German Expressionist film...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘Loulou’

  Hello and welcome back to Criterion Crunch Time!  I’m surprised it took this long (4 movies total), but this week, we are watching our first French film. This month, one of the...

Op-ed: The Difficulty of Adapting the Writing of W. Somerset Maugham into Films

As a fifteen-year-old, I decided to read the novel The Razor’s Edge. It was published in 1944 and it was written by some guy called W. Somerset Maugham who looked awfully serious...

Op-ed: And The Production Sunk On Some More

Last year, I did a piece on films that received a ton of notoriety with their lengthy production and overblown budgets which resulted in critical failure for most, but some received actual...

Hollywood’s Boy Wonder: Irving Thalberg

Upon his sudden death in 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The world of art is poorer with the passing of Irving Thalberg. His high ideals, insight, and imagination went into the production...

Second Chances: ‘Lady in the Water’ (2006)

Where and when we watch movies are crucial to how much we enjoy them. There are so many variables at play - watching alone rather than with friends, in the cinema versus...

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