Henry has the face and demeanor of a debilitated soul – hapless, dour, confused, drained, beleaguered. This world he inhabits – with its grey, smoke-filled air hanging like a fog, with its lifeless factories buzzing and churning ad nauseum, with…

The relationship one has with art is a special thing. Sometimes a painting or a piece of music or a film speaks to you directly, comments on something you’re going through or have gone through, and it instantly makes sense.…

It can be tough to find your footing with film noir at the beginning of your cinephile journey. What can help you better understand the ideology and message of the film movement? Well, you can obviously start with the classics,…

Welcome to the Cinephile’s Guide to Film Noir. Here, you will find all the essential details about film noir for any budding cinephile who’s looking for more information on the film movement. What is Film Noir? French for “black film,”…

As Pauline Kael rightfully points out in her review, there are two particular sequences in Variety Lights that stand out. The first is when Checco’s troupe walks along a backcountry road, beautifully lit and framed as they trudge along, and…

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 that if anyone saw our divided selves, our true selves, if they could hear the sick…

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 (just ten days ago) when it happened all over again, on the other side of reading…

all is fair in love and war, and currently my war is with time, with my scrambling thoughts about a movie that works but doesn’t work as well as it should The House By the Cemetery serves as a remarkable…