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What is Mad God about? On the surface, Mad God is a “what if” that imagines a world in which God has punished human arrogance. This is why the opening cites both the story of the Tower of Babel and…

Speak No Evil has more going on than just an excellent performance from James McAvoy. It has two primary themes. One, the importance of healthy honesty. And two, the influence of parents on children.

What is the point of The Substance? The Substance uses a female perspective to explore aging and the impact of media and the entertainment industry on beauty standards. Elisabeth Sparkle is a negative example. Who not to be. If you…

What is the point of Strange Darling? Strange Darling is about perception and how quick people are to jump to conclusions based on biases and limited information. The movie portrays that through the dynamic between “The Lady” and “The Demon”.…

In The Deliverance, director Lee Daniels uses the horror genre to viscerally explore spiritual warfare, generational trauma, and the quest for redemption. Ebony’s battle to protect her family coincides with her own battle with internal darkness, with systemic oppression.

Blink Twice joins a long line of r*pe-revenge films that started with Bergman’s The Virgin Spring and has continued through the decades with films like The Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, Red Sonja, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Promising Young Woman. Kravitz brings the genre into the social media age, playing on modern aspects of society that involve influencers and reality-versus-Instagram.

What is Longlegs about? Longlegs is about the ways in which parents protect children and how that can often take the form of preventing them from growing up. Ruth lies to Lee about what she does for a living, who…

Alien: Covenant’s major theme is about the relationship between creators and their creations. As David says, near the end of the film, pretending to be Walter, “I think if we are kind, it will be a kind world.” There’s an unspoken corollary there: if we are unkind, it will be an unkind world.

Every question answered. We spent over 30 hours studying, dissecting and hopefully explaining everything there is to know about The Wailing.

Welcome to the best explanation of Perfect Blue available on the internet. This article will analyze, calculate, disentangle and decode all of the essential details required to understand the deeply nuanced and convoluted story of Perfect Blue. What happened? Why…

Why is the movie called Under the Skin? The title Under the Skin is a crucial clue to what’s happening in the movie. It gets at the idea of looking beneath the surface. At going beyond appearance. It’s similar to…
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