The premise is that we are watching an artless home movie documenting a day in the life of Panahi as he awaits the court’s final decision. In fact, the film was shot over the course of a week—some parts written, some sketched out, and others serendipitous—with a combination of HD c...
Yoo-chul visits a booth with Ri-el and notes that one of the dogs shares a name with her childhood pet. She can’t believe that he remembers, but he reminds her that she missed school when it died. We then see young Yoo-chul console young Ri-el as she prepared to bury an urn in...
- Freedom of action is delusory. Each time there is a door, you can pick its lock or go through the vent tubes nearby. It is micro-freedom and it only gives an illusion of freedom. And this is not enough to hide the progression through the game which is rather linear, whatever you ...
Sky Ferreira on Working with David Lynch in ‘Twin Peaks’: ‘F*ck Up My Teeth, Give Me a Rash, I Literally Don’t Care’ 12/4/2024 by Vincent Perella Indiewire Watch the Director of ‘Flow’ Go Behind the Scenes of the Best Animated Movie of the Year 12/4/2024 by Christian Blauv...
For some reason, a year later, her family has mostly forgotten about this, which doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense, but I guess that’s kind of a horror movie trope. The Nightmare on Elm Street series in particular has a lot of parents who are ridiculously insensitive to ...
For a long time, the Nice Guy trope has been accepted and even celebrated in society and popular culture. For a long time, the Nice Guy trope has been accepted and even celebrated in society and popular culture. The consequence? Women being taught to ignore red flags and feeling that they...
. Not only because it is a reproduction of a well-worn and problematic trope of the white savior but because Hammarskjöld’s efforts were probably as much a part of the problem as they were a part of the solution. If the film had real revelatory ambition, it would have illuminated the...
Ah yes! so much different from Grace Jones’ Mayday in A View To A Kill! You remember her don’t you? She was the rather angry woman who stormed off set a few months ago. The tough female agent trope, that’s never been done before! Except for Halle Berry’s Jinx and Naomi Harris...
The film often returns to this trope about Ukrainians and Russians being at war “with themselves”: they are “Slavic brothers” who should not be fighting. This claim, which Vladimir Putin himself has often made, is manifestly untrue. Russia invaded Ukraine, a sovereign state, in 2014 and...
If there's one television trope that won't die, it's the "bad boy" who somehow gets the "good girl" to fall for him — whether he catches her afterward is an entirely different story. Bad boys come in many varieties — they are no longer all…