As a writer, I always find myself, perhaps unsurprisingly so, drawn to author archetypes when featured in motion picture films.…
Browsing: Drama
Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio star in Charlotte Wells’ triumphant feature debut “Aftersun.” The film brings an intimate portrayal…
So many films have involved relationships between older men and young women, and most of them have either been overly…
Nothing could be more romantic than Christmas in the foggy, fairytale-esque town of Bruges. Although, for Ray (Colin Farrell) —…
I encountered “I Vitelloni” in the ‘Turner Movie Classic Collection’ on HBO Max. I am admittedly always weary of watching…
The 2009 comedy/drama “Up in the Air,” starring George Clooney, somehow slipped under my radar. I recently watched the movie…
As the Irish Civil War rages in the backdrop, there’s another war brewing between two ex-best friends in the quaint…
Vicky Krieps: how does she do it? It’s tempting to call her effortless, since her characters tend to have such…
A legal drama that spends no time in an actual courtroom, Orson Welles’ “The Trial” (1962) takes a Hitchcockian conceit—the wrongfully…
Every so often, a director would finally make a film so personal to them that it becomes either their masterpiece…