In recent interviews Dan Gilroy (writer/director of Velvet Buzzsaw) has talked about two topics. His interest in the intersection between commerce and art. And one...

After two hours of meandering, disconnected people—both citizens of the present-day Thailand and souls of the distant past—wandering the streets and schools and hospitals...

What is Vanilla Sky about? For those who want a quick answer—Vanilla Sky is pretty straightforward. Everything that Tech Support says in the final scene...

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....

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...

This is a live list of all the movies I've watched since beginning this list in 2022. A lot of older movies won't make...

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.

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...

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.

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