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Chris Lambert
Chris Lambert is the co-founder and lead writer of Film Colossus. He specializes in film interpretation, narrative structure, and explaining how movies use story, imagery, and technique to create meaning. His work on Film Colossus has reached millions of readers, with more than 500 articles covering films ranging from Fight Club and Black Swan to Perfect Blue and The Odyssey.
Bones and All explained
What is Bones and All about? Bones and All is a twist on the typical coming of age story. While Maren has a unique problem in her vampiric and cannibalistic need for human blood and meat, she’s like a lot…
Inception explained
What is Inception about? Inception is a heist movie that’s actually exploring ideas of psychological closure and catharsis. The heist is simply an entertaining way to get at the deeper conversation of mental health. Inception’s actual story is about Dom…
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse explained
Welcome to our Colossus Movie Guide for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. This guide contains everything you need to understand the film. Dive into our detailed library of content, covering key aspects of the movie. We encourage your comments to help…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem explained
Welcome to our Colossus Movie Guide for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. This guide contains everything you need to understand the film. Dive into our detailed library of content, covering key aspects of the movie. We encourage your comments…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse came out in 2018. It received immediate and intense praise and seemed like a gauntlet toss to the entire animation industry. “Do you see this? Do you see how cool this sh*t looks? Your turn.” I…
Oppenheimer explained (2023)
What is Oppenheimer about? Oppenheimer covers a great many topics over the course of its three-hour runtime. But it has a few major themes. First, chain reactions. This is most obvious with the Manhattan Project being based on the science…
Talk to Me | The Definitive Explanation
Welcome to our Colossus Movie Guide for Talk to Me. This guide contains everything you need to understand the film. Dive into our detailed library of content, covering key aspects of the movie. We encourage your comments to help us…
Talk to Me | The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Talk to Me is an A24 film. That’s come to mean something in terms of quality and originality. Especially with the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes currently going on. A24 is one of the only (if not the only) studios to…
Barbie explained (2023) | Greta Gerwig’s Fight Club
Welcome to our Colossus Movie Guide for Barbie. This guide contains everything you need to understand the film. Dive into our detailed library of content, covering key aspects of the movie. We encourage your comments to help us create the…
Barbie | The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Live action films based on toys isn’t a new concept. Clue kicked it off in 1985, to great success. Over the decades, there have been some highs (Mars Attacks, Transformers) and lows (Battleship, Transformers). On average, the quality of most…
Oppenheimer | The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Christopher Nolan is one of the most beloved and popular filmmakers of the 21st century. Oppenheimer was his first movie in nearly 3 years. Even then, Tenet came out in September of 2020, during the height of COVID-19. Meaning that…
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