physically and psychologically. Genesis and Bel gain access to Evan Webber’s home on a rainy night and slowly make it clear that they have more in mind than just drying themselves up. Casual seduction takes the shape of aggressive roleplay to the point of Webber’...
The gun violence showcased in the film is deployed for narrative purposes, but the historical context doesn’t make the movie any easier to watch. What makes the film worth sticking around for is the perspective it offers on the after effects of a terrorist act, as told through the eyes ...
No country, however, was more responsible for the popularity of the feature thanItaly. The Italian cinema’s lavishly produced costume spectacles brought it international prominence in the years before the war. Theprototypesof the genre, by virtue of their epic material and length, were theCines...
no—but at least a serious commentary) despite the gag-a-minute presentation. I’d do well to have years of cultural study to appreciate the fuller implications, but my cursory knowledge of history and cinema lets me appreciate how searing this movie’s satire...
For the first 15 minutes or so, I wondered what was going on. That’s because the camera begins in a first-person point of view in“Nickel Boys,”showing us the African-American life in 1960s Florida. Through a young boy’s eyes, we see family and friends playing cards, parents doing...
Also ranks #3 on The Greatest Movies in World Cinema History 9 Grave of the Fireflies 3,615 votes A teenager is charged with the care of his younger sister after an Allied firebombing during World War II destroys their home and kills their mother. Also ranks #1 on The 25+ Darkest Anime...
The otherworldly genesis tale—and all its associated hijinks—has all the ingredients for a riveting, sci-fi action saga. In 2002, the movie was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. You may also like: 25 iconic movie roles that almost went to...
Rocky’s genesis and success is deeply entwined with the story enacted in the movie series it birthed, and a fundamental aspect of its mystique and popularity. Sylvester Stallone, born in Hell’s Kitchen in 1946, had suffered from partial paralysis in his face from a difficult birth, a debil...
before being cut loose from the film, battered and bleeding, and hearing Salt-N-Pepa’s ‘Push It’ incongruously booming out from the nightclub below as we left the cinema. It also wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the movie got me thinking seriously about spiritual matters for th...
” commercials. (2) Welles’ role as Lew Lord inThe Muppet Movieand (3) Welles’ movie about Nostradamus….The Man Who Saw Tomorrow…..scared the hell out of me when I was younger. So no matter how old I get, my first memories of Orson Welles will always be that “Old guy in ...