Christopher Nolan is consistently able to confuse me. He fascinates me as a director. His movies are so complex and yet so beloved by the masses. Yet, half the time I don’t even know what’s…
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The Muddled Messaging of ‘The Platform’
by Nick Kushby Nick KushThe Platform often returns to a somewhat meta retort shared by the main character, Goreng (played by Ivan Massagué, who looks like a Spanish John Turturro), and his prison cellmate, Trimagasi (Zorion Eguileor, the perfect…
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‘Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City’ Translates Into a Below Average Neo-Noir
Daniel Calparsoro’s Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2020) is a Spanish thriller on Netflix, and so it was composed with the World Wide Web in mind for its target demographic. However, this is…
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“Someone’s always watching…” Such is the tagline for The Night Clerk (2020), the straight-to-home-rental crime drama from Michael Cristofer. Weaving the yarn of a voyeuristic everyman desperate to prove his innocence, it emulates Sir Alfred…
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Ah, the Brits. They have one of the most recognizable cadences around the world, and that distinctive way of life has carried over greatly into their films. From some of our most notable directing titans…
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Spain is an often under-appreciated source of cinematic genius. Odds are that you know Pan’s Labyrinth, but there’s so many other amazing offers for you from the largest piece of the Iberian Peninsula. Thankfully, director Richard Keaney…
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As much as we all try to give off the facade that we’re cinephiles, there’s always more movies to see, more holes to fill in our film knowledge. That’s one of the more interesting things…
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While most of us in the United States keep our movie palates restricted to mostly American films, there’s an entire world of full of great films that cover stories that are rarely seen by general…