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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.
3 ways to explain The Beach Bum’s dreamy ending
I’m pretty sure one day we’re going to talk about The Beach Bum as one of the greatest cult films of all-time and an outright masterpiece. That’s down the road, though. In the short term, I think we first have…
The Art of the Surprise Smash: why we love Goose the Cat, Hulk, and Groot
Since Captain Marvel came out, Goose the Cat has been a huge topic of conversation. It makes sense. For one, it’s a cat. For two, the feline has major screen time in a highly anticipated Marvel movie. For three, Goose is…
How Miles Morales found his spark, and how you can too
In the case of Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, he didn’t choose to have a radioactive spider bite him and grant him superpowers just in time for a potentially multiverse ending event. Just a normal, confused teenager, Miles was swept into…
Creed II explained | How fathers influence sons and sons influence fathers
The first Creed was all about Adonis, the late, great Apollo Creed’s bastard son who was unknown to the world, claiming his namesake. Could he follow in his father’s footsteps? Could he be a Creed? The final fight, despite Adonis…
Velvet Buzzsaw explained
In recent interviews Dan Gilroy (writer/director of Velvet Buzzsaw) has talked about two topics. His interest in the intersection between commerce and art. And one of his own Hollywood tragedies. I went through a personal experience: I worked on the epic…
Serenity (2019) explained
Odds are you haven’t seen many articles discussing how the twist of Serenity is actually grounded in our everyday decision-making practices. Most of the talk is about how bizarre or bad Serenity is. One headline I saw said it was almost impossible to describe…
Suspiria explained: why Susie erased Klemperer’s memories (and more)
The 2018 incarnation of Suspiria is, weirdly enough, a condemnation of leaders and political figures who abuse their power. It just so happens to explore that topic in an unexpected way—by following witches running a dance school. Because so much…
Explaining the end of Anomalisa, what the mechanical Japanese woman means, why Lisa is an anomaly, and Michael’s mechanical face
The great thing about Anomalisa is that a lot of people wrote about the film. There are some great Reddit discussions about it. Some great articles. Most of them discuss the concepts of depressions, being lost, the Fregoli delusion, the meaning of…
A Star Is Born: explained
One of my favorite things about narrative, especially in film, is how stories can add layers of meaning by having characters as symbolic representations of abstract concepts. A Star is Born does this really well, creating a whole secondary dimension of meaning to the movie—especially…
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) | The Definitive Explanation
To convey the nuance of its thematics, Clouds of Sils Maria primarily relies on dialogue between characters. So this ending explanation involves a lot of dialogue. But once you have the context of the dialogue, the whole movie becomes clear.…
Explaining the season 7 Winterfell plot between Arya, Sansa, and Little Finger in Game of Thrones
Season 7 of Game of Thrones has been met with more openly negative complaints than any season I remember. Most of this has to do with throwing travel logistics out the window. Trips that used to take weeks now seem like…
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