Room (2015) Review
Room (2015) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Emma Donoghue adapted her own novel and kept the one decision that makes it bearable, which is that everything is narrated by a five-year-old who thinks the shed is…
Tag: Motherhood
Motherhood in fiction carries more weight than almost any other relationship, and it is rarely written carefully. This tag collects reviews of films built on mothers and what the relationship does to a plot.
1970sSuspiria (1977)
Dario Argento directs the giallo horror about an American dance student who discovers her German ballet academy is run by witches. Suspiria is Dario Argento's 1977 Italian horror film depicting an American ballet student who arrives at a prestigious German…
2000sCoraline (2009)
The film adapts Neil Gaiman's 2002 novella. The film cost approximately sixty million dollars and made one hundred and twenty-five million worldwide.
1950sCinderella (1950) Review
Cinderella is the film that saved the Walt Disney Company. The wartime production constraint.
1940sBambi (1942) Review
Bambi is one of the great American animated films and one of Walt Disney's most personal achievements. The film runs seventy minutes.
2010sLooper (2012) Review
Rian Johnson's time travel thriller. Joseph Gordon-Levitt transforming into Bruce Willis through accumulated choices.
1990sTerminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Review
James Cameron's most audacious decision in Terminator 2 isn't the liquid metal effects or the freeway chase or the nuclear dream sequence. It's taking his own iconic villain and making him the film's emotional center.
FamilyRemembering My Mother: A Personal Reflection on Mother’s Day
A personal tribute to my mother, her lasting influence, and the true meaning behind Mother’s Day, past the cards and flowers.