And Your Mother Too! (2001)
And Your Mother Too – A Journey About Youth, Desire, and the Price of Growing Up Some films do not only tell stories; they become a reflection of one’s self. Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mamá También (And Your Mother Too) is that kind of rare creation. A road movie that pretends to be about lust […]
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
When Love Became a Language of Fire and Silence When Blue Is the Warmest Colour premiered at Cannes in 2013, it wasn’t just another art film about love — it was a cinematic detonation. The film, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, walked away with the festival’s highest honour, the Palme d’Or, but what lingered wasn’t just […]
The Boy Next Door
“I see a neighbourhood turned sinister.” When it comes to a film featuring Jennifer Lopez, The Boy Next Door isn’t an obvious choice. But in the case of The Boy Next Door, which came out in January 2015, it presented an unusual case. “On paper, it appeared sophisticated. It features high-school teacher Claire Peterson (JLo)—psychological […]
28 Years Later
On the Brink of Silence — Setting the Stage Picture a world where time has scarcely moved, and yet, everything has changed. 28 Years Later revisits us to the unnerving world of 28 Days Later, nearly three decades after the outbreak of the Rage virus. This is not another zombie thriller. It is a poetic […]
Friends with Benefits
More than Casual Romance: Friends With Benefits When Friends with Benefits debuted in 2011, it was accompanied by a slew of romantic comedies aimed at re-imagining love and relationships for a contemporary audience. Unlike other romantic comedies with formulaic plots and stereotypical courtship rituals, Friends with Benefits presented a witty and mildly racy perspective on […]
IO
IO: A Quiet Sci-Fi Journey Through Earth’s Last Breath Releasing on Netflix in January 2019, contemplative sci-fi drama IO emphasizes human hope, and isolation try, and humanity’s imprint on earth’s devastating effects. Directed by Jonathan Helpert, the film features Margaret Qualley as Sam Walden, Earth’s last human resident, and Anthony Mackie as Micah, who is […]
Cruise
Cruise: A Cinematic Odyssey Beyond the Screen Summer 2023 saw the release of Cruise, a film that nostalgically and deeply renders the complexities of youth, identity, and the chasing of dreams. The film is set in the 1980s and centers on young Italian American from Queens named Gio (Spencer Boldman), and the film chronicles his […]
Darker Shades Of Elise
When Desire, Secrets, and the Internet Collided: Darker Shades of Elise Darker Shades of Elise was released in 2017 on streaming platforms without any substantial marketing and was unanticipated to make waves. It was certainly not a large studio production with an extravagant marketing campaign. Social media, however, was soon flooded with inquisitive hashtags, such […]
Obsessed
Obsessed was the first romantic drama directed by Kim Dae-woo. The movie was set in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, but chose to focus not on the war but on the conflict within the characters’ passions, desire, and social constraints. Illustrated in the film is the life of Korean war hero Colonel Kim Jin-pyeong (acted […]
The Handmaiden
The Handmaiden (2016): Desire, Deception, and the Women Who Rewrote the Rules The Handmaiden (Ah-ga-ssi) wasn’t just another addition to Park Chan-wook’s prolific career; it was an audacious and stylish cinematic revolution. The Handmaiden was inspired by Sarah Waters’ historical novel Fingersmith. However, the film adaptation shifts the Victorial setting to 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea. It […]