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…

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…

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…

This is an important article for me. Because Magnolia is, like…my favorite movie. Ever. It was the movie that kickstarted my love of cinema. I’ve been infatuated with Paul Thomas Anderson ever since, and have always loved writing about his…

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 Indian film RRR opened to record box office success earlier this year, and then proceeded to amass a worldwide cult following after its Netflix debut in May—and it’s easy to see why. It’s an incredible spectacle of a film…

What is Nope about? Nope is essentially Jaws in the sky. The UFO is like a shark. It gets hungry and feeds on what it comes across, whether that’s people or horses or statues of horses. In that sense, Nope…

The quick explanation The Northman falls into the “noble revenge” genre and is based on a Scandinavian legend attributed mostly to Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus and his comprehensive history of Denmark called the Gesta Danorum. The original story is historically…

The Quick Explanation The Black Phone adapts a short story by Joe Hill. The overall story is about Finney Blake’s attempts to escape The Grabber, a child abductor in a Denver suburb. But the film’s thematic subtext is about abuse…

Elvis is a traditional biopic that utilizes Baz Luhrmann’s natural flair and love of cinema to elevate beyond the traditional biopic. By that, I mean there are some themes and subtleties worth talking about in a bit more detail.  Why…