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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.
What is the Talokan hand gesture? | Explained
Every time the Talokans see Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, they make a hand gesture. It’s the Talokan civilization’s equivalent of Wakandians doing the arm-X across the chest when they say “Wakanda forever”. I think most people get the…
Triangle of Sadness explained | Money isn’t always power
The Quick Explanation Triangle of Sadness is about economic systems and the roles people have within those systems. Whether it’s on a yacht, or in a sudden, makeshift community that’s not reliant on money as we know it. The overall…
Who Invited Charlie? | Scouting Report | Austin Film Festival
I got to see Who Invited Charlie? at the Austin Film Festival. It’s one of the funniest movies of the year. Which was a wonderful thing to experience because 2022 has felt very thin on pure comedies. I laughed a…
Crimes of the Future explained | Embrace progress
The Quick Explanation Crimes of the Future can be overwhelming to figure out when you’re in the details of everything. But when you zoom out, the story is quite simple. It’s about acceptance of the new and tension with the…
Black Adam | Bad Writing
There are so many logic-insulting choices in Black Adam that a full discussion would be the length of a novel. So I’m only going to focus on two of these “What in the world were they thinking?” moments. The first…
SMILE | Why did I feel personally insulted?
Is it possible for a movie like Smile to be insulting? That’s the question I’ve spent a few days thinking about. I saw the movie. Realized the movie was about trauma. Waited to see what it said about trauma. Then…
Barbarian | The Essential Explanation
What is the point of Barbarian? Barbarian is a three chapter story that explores a particular aspect of the female experience—specifically, what it means to interact with men and the way in which men interact with women. The potential danger…
Three Thousand Years of Longing | The Essential Explanation
The Quick Explanation Three Thousand Years of Longing is about isolation and connection and the way stories serve to bridge the gap between those two things. The stories we tell ourselves, those we share with others, and those we listen…
Us movie explained | This is the best article
The Quick Explanation Narratively, the dynamic between Addy and Red is a tragic one. Addy is an underdog story, rising from the world of the tethered into the upper echelons. It’s heroic in the same way of entrepreneurs who come…
The Giant Explanation of Enemy
The Quick Explanation Enemy is Denis Villeneuve’s Fight Club. Except it’s less explicit than Fight Club. It opts to show more than tell. So you never get the big, definitive reveal that Adam and Anthony are the same person the…
The Predator franchise | Ranked
I’m a pretty big Predator fan. Ever since I was a kid. I may have been the only 7 year old in Ohio with a foot-tall dynamic replica of a Predator. There’s a picture of 4 year old me posing…
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