Defiant Success

Schoolteacher Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) is a woman of minor controversy. Her fellow teachers are shocked by the material she teaches her ...

When you've been making films for decades, it can be hard to adapt to the changing film movements. (This is why a number of stars from...

Early on in Dee Rees' Pariah , we get a glimpse into the kind of person Alike (Adepero Oduye) is. She prefers masculine outfits over t...

It's really fascinating to see the starting themes in a director's work. Sometimes it takes a few films before you really see the ...

"By the time you read this letter, I may be dead." That is the first sentence from the eponymous letter in Max Ophuls' Lette...

Not long after Nicholas Hytner's The Madness of King George  begins, it's established that King George III (Nigel Hawthorne) isn...

It's rather daring for Hollywood to make a film based on recent events. (Like, within five years of the first headline.) The news are ...

We live in a society that (still)  demands equality between men and women amongst the arts. "There aren't enough movies/TV shows d...

I feel somewhat guilty for not providing new material for the blog as of late. The truth is, I'm away on vacation and my interest in doi...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biutiful  is a relatively simple film. Nothing too flashy, nothing too daring. It certainly feels like a...