Film & TV
Marty Supreme Summary/Review: Faster than a Ping-Pong Rally
Director Josh Safdie enables Timothée Chalamet's innate propensity for grandiosity to an unprecedented extent.
Sentimental Value (2025) and its lack of sentimentality
A film about a familial dynamic, absent interaction.
Anora (2024) film review & summary
Re-publishing in honor of the film's recent Golden Globes snubs.
A Single Man (2009) film review & summary
A single day in the life of a single man.
The Thing (1982) film review & summary
A virtuoso directorial performance in suspense and suspicion.
The Iron Claw (2023) film review & summary
RATING: STRONG 3/10 The Iron Claw (2023) is as bloated with blunt expository imagery and unnecessary melodrama as Kevin Von Erich’s (Zac Efron) swollen body. The trailers for…
Barbarian (2022) Film Review and Summary
SOFT 8/10 Apparently the rhetoric disseminated by masses of parents and guardians of “stranger danger” is not compelling enough for someone like Tess (Georgina Campbell) to refrain from…
Tár (2022) Film Review and Summary
SOLID 8/10 Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is not always present. The titular character will probably strike a chord with modern cinema’s obsession with megalomaniacs; demonstrated by the revitalization…
Tokyo Drifter (1966) Film Review and Summary
STRONG 6/10 The concept of mise en scéne within film is a polarizing one. In essence, the classification relates to anything that a film is composed of; the…
Tokyo Story (1953) Film Review and Summary
SOFT 9/10 There is a propensity for sensational melodrama in the modern day expressions of dysfunctional families in cinema. Noah Baumbach has made a name for himself by…
Halloween (1978) Film Review and Summary
SOLID 8/10 Have you ever gotten up in the middle of the pitch-black night to grab yourself a glass of water? In this journey to quench your thirst,…
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies (2022) Film Review and Summary
SOLID 7/10 Bodies, Bodies, Bodies (2022) is basically an incredibly boujee and sexually-charged game of Clue. The first shot of the film is an intimate close-up between Sophie…
Godzilla (1954) Film Review and Summary
SOLID 7/10 Godzilla is now a character within the macrocosm of iconic American film franchises. The monster is more aligned with supernatural characters such as King Kong and…
Entergalactic (2022) Film Review and Summary
SOFT 8/10 Scott Mescudi, otherwise known as Kid Cudi, is a man who dons many hats. Rapper, crooner, streetwear enthusiast and more prominently of recent, an actor. In…
Blonde (2022) Film Review and Summary
SOLID 2/10 Right from the start, Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas) is told to be a good girl. From helpless child to beloved superstar, this message is constantly…