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PIG is like a weird, quiet, simply profound piece of art. It calls attention to loss and grief, treading in a puddle of existential deconstruction with comedic overtones, also Nicholas Cage needs a bath like very badly. Set in an isolating green forest of Oregon juxtaposed to the vibrantly booming metropolis of Portland, PIG Read more
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Personally, I’m not the greatest player but I find myself drawn to the game especially among those I love. Chess is an alluring game. Chess is the game of life. And as Elizabeth Harmon retorts nonchalantly in a scene in the latest success that is Netflix limited series’ THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT, “Chess can be Read more
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These are trying times. We all know that and perhaps collectively we feel the despair of the simple liberties that have been stripped away from us over the passing months. Things taken for granted are no longer necessarily as easily and accessible to reach. What does this have to do with Darren Aronofsky’s 2000 Read more
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With movies like All the President’s Men, Network, His Girl Friday, Deadline USA, The Post, Spotlight, and Bombshell, or TV shows like the Newsroom, the news media has facilitated an interesting scope into our culture’s values, dishonesty, and secrecy. Freedom of the press in the United States is legally protected by the First Amendment Read more
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The hype did nothing for me. In fact, it really makes me ponder and cringe about humanity’s direction sometimes. Wild animals are wild animals and I find it wildly hilarious humans attempt to monetize, conserve, and parade a sort of vanity to establish some kind of status in our very diverse society. I don’t Read more
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Given the world’s current condition, my weariness returns to the man who made me a cinephile. Perhaps, its dumb luck or a coincidence or sporadic memories but finding ourselves among a world hindered not only by an illness but the mentality of isolation rang an enormous bell in my head. What film knocks all Read more
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We all endure the unconditional forlorn of mundanity that results in some aspect of our lives. The irony in this particular write up is Steven Soderbergh’s 1996 film SCHIZOPOLIS, for me was like coming up for air in a sea of films that subscribe to the same template in terms of storytelling. The template Read more
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THE NIGHTINGALE is a tense, tough one. Real world-terror is horrific and Jennifer Kent has executed a no holds barred devilish nightmare of a woman with nothing left to lose. It’s all about revenge stemming from a tensely claustrophobic scene in a cabin where one woman’s life at the mercy of three senseless, debauched Read more
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THE COUNTESS, a French-German, historical, gothic, drama that I’m also going to classify as a horror film and quite possibly lingers in the fairytale arena very fleetingly is fierce with a sullen vitality dwelling in the broken façade that is ultimately the unattainable credo known as the Fountain of Youth. Initially, I wasn’t taken Read more
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One late night when I was a junior in high school I was browsing the tube and came across a film, that would later take me a decade to identify. I didn’t have a title or a director and I’m pretty sure this was something on TCM Underground at like 2am way back when Read more
[Film Reviews from a Female Brain]
MARISSA THE CINEPHILE 