
TITANE (2021) - Gender Identity and Family
It’s Fathers Day, so let’s talk about a fucked up movie. I didn’t plan for this at all, but here we are. This is a movie that I...

The House That Jack Built (2018): Artists and Bodies of Work
There’s a common list of films that people attribute as the “most disturbing films of all time”. While the content in the films can be...

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Dreamlike Loneliness and Technology
Trying to imagine how big the universe truly is a hard task. Imagining how lonely it would be is easier. There’s something about empty...

Babylon (2022): Sex, Drugs and the Love of Cinema
Babylon is Chazelle’s magnum opus that promises so much and delivers on everything that it promises. An epic on the scale of “The...

The Alex Leyba Movie/My Name Is Alex (2022): Personal Growth and Change
Change, it’s something that every human goes through. That growth comes in many categories from the physical growth we experience as we...

Women Talking (2022): Let’s Actually Listen to Women’s Perspectives
The Canadian film industry isn’t as massive as the Americans, but we definitely have our notable films and filmmakers. Two that usually...

The Imitation Game (2014): World War II, Queer Identity and the Workplace [Oscars Retrospective]
World War II is one of the biggest events that has occurred in recent history. The war wasn’t even a century ago, and the effects from...

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022): Weird, Complex and Thought Provoking
Weird Cinema, I live for it! If the film goes out of its way to be different or strange, I see that as a positive. Many filmmakers have...

How E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’s Score Shapes Audience's Perception and Feelings of the Film
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a highly acclaimed science fiction film that is regarded as one of Steven Spielberg's greatest tearjerkers....

The Distinct Music of Netflix’s Stranger Things (Soundtrack Review)
The soundtrack of Netflix’s Stranger Things is one of the most recognizable TV show scores of the modern day. Its use of synthesizers and...

Tick, Tick...Boom!: The Powerful Story of Jonathan Larson Before Rent
“They're singing, ‘Happy birthday’, you just wanna lay down and cry”. Correct, I just want to lay down and cry about how powerful and...

The People’s Joker (2022): Rediscovering My Trans Identity
On the surface, The People’s Joker seems like a super low budget parody film that somehow played at TIFF, but it’s so much more than...

Editing and Cinematography in Moulin Rouge’s Musical Sequences
Baz Luhrmann is a filmmaker most well known for his extravagant productions, excessive techniques, and emphasis on hyper-realism. Among...

Decision to Leave (2022): The Perfect Ending to Park Chan Wook’s “Lust Trilogy”
I for one, am a huge fan of Park Chan Wook. Throughout my teen years, I began to discover much more foreign cinema than I did previously...

The Fabelmans (2022): The Return of Spielberg’s Magic
Steven Spielberg is someone who has become synonymous with cinema and the history of filmmaking. Everyone has that one film that the...

Love and Aliens: The Influence of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial on Americans in the Eighties
Perhaps one would recognize the iconic film from the infamous image of a certain bicycle flying in the sky with a full moon in the...

Chaplin: Comedy and Tragedy
Charlie Chaplin is one of the world's most famous comedy filmmakers, and perhaps the most acclaimed director and actor of the silent film...

South Korean Cinema: Deeper Than You Think
South Korean Cinema has been something that has fascinated me since I first saw the works of Bong Joon Ho as a teenager. The way that...

X (2022): Examining the 70s and Sexuality
Horror fans if asked the question, would all agree that the seventies was a very transformative decade for the genre. Hollywood had...




















