Ivory Tower — A Short Summary of the Many Issues with Higher Education
Ivory Tower is a documentary that exposes the perils of investing so much money in higher education. At that same time, it fosters credence in…
Reviews
Ten Years Later — Man on Fire, Body Politics of Fear and Protection
In Tony Scott’s second of four films with Denzel Washington, he explores the body through the politics of safety. A note at the beginning of…
Nymphomaniac Vol. 2 — Language and Linguistics
Nymphomaniac Vol. 2 continues with the foreseeable consequences within any film that deals with the trope of addiction. Joe is, inevitably, going to try to…
Ten Years Later — Kill Bill Vol. 2
In Kill Bill, Vol. 1, Tarantino offered an homage to kung fu films, showing how easily they translate into American cinema, particularly the super hero…
Nyphomaniac Vol. 1 — Addiction and Exposition
Lars Von Trier’s Nyphomaniac Vol. I is, unfortunately, disappointing. Perhaps it’s because it comes on the heels of astonishingly profound films like Antichrist and Melancholia….
Behind the Candelabra — Deception and the Law
As the title suggests, Behind the Candelabra, in part, is about deception. The archetype for twentieth-century flamboyance, Liberace (Golden Globe winner Michael Douglas), refuses to…
The Grand Budapest Hotel — Celebrity and Authorship
Hotels are a fascinating dichotomy. In their erection, they symbolize a cohesive permanence, while each of their subdivided quarters represents separation and temporality – momentary…
Breaking Amish — Shattering the Bottom of the Barrel
In 2012, MTV’s Buckwild founded a genre that could one day be referred to as “degenerate porn,” wherein an isolated group of nine teenagers from…
Adore — Wrong or Uncomfortable
Adore is, at its core, inconceivably silly. Despite characteristically strong performances by Naomi Watts and Robin Wright, the film is on the border of pushing…
Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Temporality and Distance
Despite the change in directors, Hunger Games: Catching Fire maintains a similar coolness and eeriness imparted by the first. While the first installment created a…