Incomplete Redemption Through Love in Dogfight
For most men, it is often impossible to break away from the traditions and norms enforced by toxic masculinity. ItContinue Reading
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The Specter of Memory in Hiroshima Mon Amour
A light in the darkness reveals two lovers tangled in an embrace, their faces concealed as a flurry of ashContinue Reading
The Lovers and the Hilltop in God’s Own Country
Francis Lee‘s directorial debut opens with the dawning of the day over the Yorkshire Dales, as a small house, shrunkenContinue Reading
A Bride Without a Head and a Wolf Without a Foot: The Operatic Drama of Moonstruck
Norman Jewison’s 1987 Academy Award-winning romantic comedy Moonstruck is about many things. Themes of love, family, Italian-Americanism, infidelity, and evenContinue Reading
Desire in Portrait of a Lady on Fire
When Céline Sciamma‘s fourth film Portrait of a Lady on Fire screened at Cannes in 2019, it made quite anContinue Reading
Slouching Towards Nowhere: The Graduate
“I’m worried about my future.” This is the mantra of graduate Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), one dependably recycled to hisContinue Reading
Pride & Prejudice & Pandemics
There has been a strange phenomenon during this year in quarantine where thousands of people seem to watch the sameContinue Reading
Love as War in The Handmaiden
Inspired by Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, The Handmaiden replaces Victorian England with Korea under Japanese colonial rule in the first halfContinue Reading
Remembering Easy Rider
“Liberty’s become a whore, and we’re all taking an easy ride.” “So you’re the man who killed the big moviesContinue Reading
Halloween II: More of the Night He Came Home
John Carpenter never wanted to make a Halloween sequel. Or at least one featuring Michael Myers – his original intentContinue Reading
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