After three long years away, I’m finally getting to go back to AFI Fest! One of my favorite and most unique film festivals out there, AFI Fest is held in November every year and occupies a cool space in the final season of the year. I’ve seen some of my favorite films of all time
Many movies have wrestled with end of the world scenarios and how humans have impacted the environment. But few have done it in such an absurd and endearing manner as has Downsizing, the Alexander Payne film that sees the world tackling the problem of overpopulation by shrinking people down to about five inches tall. I
To use an adage from an upcoming film, Suburbicon is not a place it’s a people. Very white people to be exact, as is hilariously outline in the welcome to town video at the top of the film. Oh yes, they come from New York to Mississippi to live in the picturesque town, but things
As a requirement of being in AP Art History during my senior year of high school, I was required to attend a field trip to the SF museum of modern art. It was…an interesting trip to say he least. You could not have found someone less enamored with the “art” than I was. I mean,
Brutal honesty in its visuals of farm life as well as its main relationship, God’s Own Country is an intimate look at the life of one gay man living in Yorkshire as the challenges of being isolated and having to do a ton of work at his family’s farm is met in intensity by the
Movies can come carefully constructed to elicit emotion and when packaged appropriately can do so. However, when the audience can feel the pull or the mechanics behind the finished product, it becomes less of a thrilling experience. Breathe, the directorial debut of Andy Serkis, contains many a compelling element and is stitched together for maximum