Movie Explanations

The Brutalist Explained For Cinephiles | This Is America

This may be a controversial opinion, but I think Brady Corbet's The Brutalist is actually a simple movie. Yes, it’s 215 minutes. Yes, it...

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A Place in the Sun (1951) | Torn between two selves

How beleaguering life can be - how we can feel we’re a nuisance, that we’re taking up other people’s space - how we fear...

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Primer Explained for Cinephiles | Easier Than It Seems

Everyone wants to know what happens in Primer. I’ll tell you. But let’s start with a quote from Shane Carruth himself. The Village Voice...

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All the President’s Men Explained for Cinephiles | Deep Throat Lights a Cigarette in the Shadows

Here we are, almost 50 years after the release of All the President’s Men, and America’s political climate feels like it’s on the brink...

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Wicked Explained for Cinephiles | A Song of Freedom

As easy as it might be to overlook Wicked as catnip for theater kids and Ariana Grande fans, to see nothing more than the...

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Queer Explained for Cinephiles | The Giant Stares Into the Motel Room

If you want to understand Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that much of the story boils...

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Babylon explained (2022)

What is Babylon about? Babylon is the latest addition to a genre of movies about the highs and lows of Hollywood. It joins the likes...

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M (1931) | Fritz Lang’s timeless commentary on politics

To call M a prescient movie feels reMdundant at this point. In 2016 when Trump was elected president, I was shell-shocked. But now, eight years later...

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Gladiator II Ending Explained | Frameshift: Fulfill the Dream

There are people who will feel Gladiator II is a wholly unnecessary sequel to a standalone story that didn’t need a continuation. But didn’t...

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Late Night with the Devil Ending Explained | Frameshift: Seal the Deal

The “hollywood dream” subgenre has some amazing movies that are legendary. Except they’re all almost entirely sad. Mulholland Drive, Sunset Boulevard, Sullivan’s Travels, Birdman,...

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