The Lady of Silence Documentary Review

Directed by Maria José Cuevas, The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders documentary begins with the families of the victims in Mexico. In the 2000s, there was a number of victims of serial killer in Mexico, which resulted in massive media coverage and social outburst. The documentary is based on a former professional wrestler, Juana...

Barbie – Movie Review

Directed by Greta Gerwig and co-written with Noah Baumbach, Barbie is set in a dreamy Barbieland filled with different shades of pink and pastel colours. The film follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) having an existential crisis right after her perfect day begins. On the disco floor, she begins thinking about death and her purpose in Barbieland....

Barbie Review: Kenergy and Toxic Masculinity

Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie is all about Female empowerment but do we know what Kenergy is?  From an academic perspective, Barbie’s empowering feminist plot and Kenergy are all about transforming the destructive toxic masculinity of today’s world. Kenergy is all about supporting Barbie and deconstructing masculinity in a fun and positive way. Simultaneously, Kenergy breaks...

Asteroid City Review

Set in a fictional town Asteroid City, a group of characters travel for the Junior Stargazer convention. Star-filled Asteroid City is probably one of the most distinctive Wes Anderson films Wes Anderson has made in his film career. Collaborating with cinematographer Robert Yeoman, the absurd and surreal narration of the film is exaggerated to the...

The Whale (2022) Review

"The Whale", directed by Darren Aronofsky, is about a rite of passage of an obese man Charlie played by Brendan Fraser. From the beginning until the end, the acting and the cinematography were so captivating. Brendan's remarkable acting evoked so many emotions simultaneously occurring together, which is a tough job to nail as an actor....

The Strays Review – A New Failed Get Out Scenario?

The Strays, a feature debut of Nathaniel Martello-White, is a tale of a Black woman Neve Williams, who resides in a white neighbourhood and works in a dominantly-white private school. With menacing undertones, her past is suddenly catching up to her psychologically. The film opens with a little segment of her past, clearly distressed about...

Sarmaşık (Ivy) Film Review: Modern Turkey

The film depicts Turkey’s political and societal mindset through mythological allegories and six different characters. Karaçelik blends those symbols with Samuel Colridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” to further Turkey’s dynamic to the screen. Additionally, the film has many Viking and Anglosaxon era spiritual symbols in order to show that decaying and stuckness....

‘Mirror’ (1975): Criticism of Oppressive Existence

A surrealist meditative work of memories that make humans. A man, Alexei, narrates his own life through flashbacks, the events that affected him throughout his childhood, and his grief about his life. Merging the present with flashbacks with the help of poetic mundaneness, Tarkovsky paints the Soviet Union's loveless autocratic nature, such as his parent's...

‘Decision to Leave’: the Echoes of Deception

Director: Park Chan-wook DoP: Kim Ji-yong "Ruined or Broken" a voice record echoes the running theme in Park Chan-wook's latest homage to Vertigo. Swapping the conventional femme fatale's sexual characterization with a modern take on misogyny, the film plays on conventional detective-suspect love tragedy to depict the melancholic isolation of two characters caught in a...

Fallen Angels (1995): A Wong Kar-wai City Symphony

Wong Kar-wai's quintessential film Fallen Angels is a homage to dreamy stony-hearted Hong Kong's nightlife while maintaining its experimental filmmaking style. Two stories untouched by each other until the end, follows a hitman (Leon Lai), his agent (Michelle Reis), a man with a speech disability (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and a friend (Charlie Yeung) with whom he...