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Shirley strays nearly completely from its source material and perhaps that is its strength as the film takes an alternative look at domestic dynamics. Shirley surrounds the lives of the famed writer Shirley Jackson (Elizabeth Moss) and her husband Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg), who is a renowned and established folklore professor, as they take in…
In 2009, Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body made its cinematic debut, but unfortunately, at the time of release, it made only $30 million in the box office and was poorly received critically. However, it was impossible to deny that Jennifer’s Body had a macabre charm. Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox were a timely duo, having both…
Portrait of a Lady on Fire left one of the biggest impacts on me that a film ever has. It has so much going for it; great cinematography, meticulous direction and screenwriting, and dedicated performances. The director, Céline Sciamma, broke away from her typical coming of age narratives and graduated to a different kind of…
I started off the year reeling from my viewing of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and thought to myself that if there’s any movie deserving of an Oscar, there it was. It was one of the most visually stunning pieces of film I’d ever seen, and the writing and casting left me completely blown…
The Peanut Butter Falcon came out late last year and although it didn’t make a huge splash in the box office, the heart and authenticity of this film are what make it significant. The Peanut Butter Falcon, although dark in certain aspects such as struggling to stay afloat through the murkiness of depression and the…
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