Writing Reviews & Reflections

by Brandon Thompson

I haven’t seen every movie, but in the mean time, I look at the water.

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The Florida Project (Review)

“Before the dark times... before the Empire”. While this quote may be from the original Star Wars film - replacing the world ‘empire’...

Edited by: Caitlin Gunst To make a movie that becomes a mainstay in pop culture in the vein of Star Wars or Harry Potter is no easy task,...

Video essays have become a mainstay in the day in the life of any cinephile on the internet. While most do reside on the internet, some...

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. This seems to be the unspoken rule of Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film, The Killing of a...

How far would you go to get your brother out of prison? ‘Good Time’ is not a film that stops for a moment and asks but it is certainly...

Blade Runner is the third Harrison Ford franchise to be relaunched within the last 10 years and once again we ask ourselves if it’s...

The Kingsman movie could be described as jigsaw puzzles. The first one from 2014, 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' would be a puzzle that...

I need to start this review with a warning. This movie was made by Paramount studios but its target audience is the art house audience....

Many directors talk about a film that was a significant point in their not only their film watching and development as a voice but their...

(Review was originally published here) To start this review I would like to thank the Criterion Collection for bringing this timeless...