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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.
Split and The Dusty Finish, the Shyamalan Twist, and M. Night’s Resurrection
This is a guest post by our friend Taylor Hawkins. In professional wrestling, there is something called the “Dusty Finish,” which is named after the late, great Dusty Rhodes. The Dusty Finish is when a match ends due to wonky…
Explaining the end of Frank, how Bigdungsromans work, and whether or not Jon commits suicide
Frank operates on two levels. The first level involves the story of Jon Burroughs. The second level is the story of The Soronprfbs. Frank is interesting because so much of the movie is about Jon and his experience with the band The…
Meet Matthew Puccini, writer/director of The Mess He Made
Matthew Puccini is a Brooklyn-based, Bay Area-raised queer filmmaker. His first film “Solo” was a Wasserman Award Finalist and won the King Award for Screenwriting at NYU’s 2016 First Run Film Festival. He spent last year as producer Scott Rudin’s Executive Assistant and…
Exploring why Lights Out was more popular than The Babadook and why the two are siblings
If Lights Out and The Babadook were siblings, then Babadook is the artistic one that’s caught up in Kubrick and Virginia Woolf and Schrodinger and going to museums, while Lights Out is smart but would rather be popular and social…
Explaining the thematic development and goodness of Creed by using examples from T.S. Eliot, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Fight Club, The Untouchables, and Battleship Potemkin
So most of us are doing this thing where we fall in love with Creed and then freak out about it and gush about it. It’s pretty cool and fun. Definitely one of my favorite things about 2015 movies. One…
How Vintage Tomorrows defamiliarizes sci-fi fan culture
When looking through the Other Worlds Austin film schedule, I see a ton of amazing concepts and ideas; it’s full of films that I find intriguing, enthralling, that make my eyes light up and my brain start racing. Sci-fi films,…
Explaining the ghost metaphor in Crimson Peak and why it’s sort of lackluster
Crimson Peak straight up tells us that the ghosts are a metaphor. Great! That takes the mystery out of that! Can we end this article now? Nope. What is that metaphor? There’s a very superficial way to understand that metaphor: the…
The Martian and why Mark Watney’s lack of love interest is the best thing for science. Also: Neil deGrasse Tyson.
The Martian does a really interesting thing, something that I can’t remember a recent movie trying. “What’s that, Chris?” you might be asking yourself. But let me ask you: Did Matt Damon’s character, Mark Watney, have a love interest? It’s…
Was Rudderless based on a true story?
A lot of people are wondering if Rudderless was based on a true story. Sort of. I mean, really, the answer is no. There was no guy whose son shot up a school and who then lived on a boat and started…
Explaining the end of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri left me in a weird spot. Which is true with a lot of people. I found it problematic that I was being asked to sympathize with Jason Dixon. Dude was the embodiment of awful cops. And…
A CURE FOR WELLNESS | The Quick Explanation
On first watching A Cure For Wellness most viewers will be clear on how the “wellness center” is actually a nefarious front for a mad scientist’s plans for immortality. That Hannah is the mad scientist, Volmer’s, daughter. And that Volmer’s trying to have a…
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