Defiant Success

At some point within every director's career, there's that one point in time where they experiment with a new genre. Not always do...

The opening moments of Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar  show the title character (Samantha Morton) caressing the body of her boyfriend w...

2014 saw the release of many films revolving around real-life people. The prominent ( Selma , The Theory of Everything ), those forgotten ...

We supposedly live in a "post-racial" society. Yeah, right. Considering the number of unarmed black people murdered by people wh...

Clint Eastwood's American Sniper  is a film with many discussion points. Is it a film that objects war or glorifies it? Does it depict...

Early on in Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory , socialite Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) has a horse riding accident but suffers no seriou...

Adam Wingard's The Guest  is clearly influenced by films of the late 70s and early 80s, Wingard's editing in some scenes is remini...

Susanna Bier's After the Wedding  starts off on relatively normal terms. In an effort to stay in good graces, Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen) a...

Our first glimpse of John Jones (Joel McCrea) in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent  shows him clearly being unimpressed by his ...

Carol White (Julianne Moore) of Todd Haynes' Safe  has a good life though a dull one. Married but sexually unsatisfied, a housewife th...