Every Snake Sheds Their Skin: “White Snake” and Regressive Representations of Heroines
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Despite the film’s potential, White Snake is ultimately a bit too predictable, a bit too safe, and perhaps a bit too regressive.
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The Salesman
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The Salesman centers on the decaying relationship between a schoolteacher, Emad, and his wife Rana after a traumatic home invasion.
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The Lobster
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The best way to watch The Lobster is to understand that it’s an experimental allegory. The bizarre, hyper-direct delivery of the actor’s lines and the short bursts of classical music playing to slow-motion cinematography build a world that highlights the absurdity of life…
Read MoreThe Neverending Story
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The most frustrating part about watching The Neverending Story is how tantalizingly close it is to being a great film…
Read MoreMidnight in Paris
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Woody Allen’s romantic comedy Midnight in Paris (2011) approaches the existential identity as a “writer” in typical Woody Allen fashion: witty, charming, sarcastic, and a great deal of pretentiousness…
Read MoreErnest and Celestine
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The animation is like a giant watercolor painting come to life with the smooth, soft colors outlined in crisp, black pen…
Read MoreMetropolis
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There are too many vital characters interacting with each other, crisscrossing subplots, that the logistics of the story gets lost within itself, but the saving grace is the artwork…
Read MoreThe Little Prince
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whenever the story follows the Little Prince in his travels, it’s absolutely mesmerizing. The production used stop-motion animation for these sequences, and all the characters were made out of thin, practically see-through paper…
Read MoreWatership Down
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Watership Down (1978) is a 90-minute adaptation of Richard Adams’ best-selling novel, an Odyssey-like tale about a group of rabbits who flee the evils of humanity before land developers obliterate their warren…
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