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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Elephant (Mini Review)

This is easily the most provocative film I've seen that is doing so by not being provocative at all. A common criticism of Schindler's...

10 years since The Dark Knight was “snubbed” for best picture, The Academy has announced it’s the latest step in trying to keep up to...

This movie is simply a product made for consumption just like the recent Ocean's Eight. Both of these franchises had a film in the last...

If you read my first instalment for this series a couple of months ago you will know what this is about. If not you can find that article...

So often during history has great art been made under restrictive environments. Typically under an authoritarian government. The most...

"The films that bored me the most in the past become my favourite movies later on. So I don’t care about boring the audience. Sometimes I...

A director’s job is ordinarily to provide escapism, not deny it. Except that is what Terry Gilliam does with this long-gestating project....

The Image Book is the new “film” from the French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard. The reason I put film in quotation marks is that ever...

For all the things this movie does well it’s held back by another. By looking at Cold War as a whole has to lead me to perceive it as an...

Sexual identity is inherent to who we are and it’s built through intimacy. Intimacy invites vulnerability. We can only get strength by...