Defiant Success

Early on in Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always , we assume that Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) is just going through the usual te...

Relationships are a fickle thing. Sometimes they're like a symphony but other times they're like nails on a chalkboard. It really de...

Antonia Bird's Ravenous  opens with John Boyd (Guy Pearce) earning a promotion for his contribution in the Mexican-American War. But w...

The bag of money. The one plot device that is a surefire way to create conflict. Be it a comedy figuring out how to spend it all or a thrill...

Devoting one's self to a particular cause is not as easy as some assume. Many times it involves having one's beliefs being both ch...

Blake Edwards' The Perfect Furlough  introduces Lt. Vicki Loren (Janet Leigh) in a way that's par for the course for films of the ...

The opening moments of John McNaughton's Normal Life  take the viewer through the average American small town. Suburbs, strip malls, t...

There's something that's fascinating about fiction focusing on sexual matters that's made before talking about them was social...

In this time of constant strife, one's always looking for a means of escape. They're looking for something to feel good about, a l...

In this current political climate, it's hard trying to immerse one's self in something besides the news. On the one hand, staying in...