Author: SEANKLAUS
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“Tenet” Review: The Brain-Bending Magic of Cinema is Back
Few names are more synonymous with modern cinema than Christopher Nolan. The acclaimed British auteur has amassed an enormous empire of epic studio action blockbusters with the craft of an arthouse film, focusing on the technical mastery of his craft and pushing the envelope of non-linear storytelling with a persistent obsession with time. “Memento” is…
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The Best Musical Scores in Film History
As cinema has evolved through its 132 years of history, its stages of transformation have been monumental in the artistic expression of millions of people across the world. From the transition to silent films to talkies with “The Jazz Singer” in 1927, to the first fully animated feature film with “Snow White and the Seven…
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“The Painted Bird” Review: A Cold-Blooded Masterwork of Vicious Trauma
Ever since the beginning of humanity, terrible suffering has plagued countless lives. Film has always been a way to express torment too unimaginable to put to words, and it is only natural that stories of war would fall into that category. From Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Ivan’s Childhood”, to Volker Schlöndorff’s “The Tin Drum”, to Elem Klimov’s…
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The Meticulous Magnificence of “Midsommar”
Every decade, hundreds of amazing films are released. And at the absolute peak of these films, there are those two or three filmmakers that emerge that you will absolutely fall in love with. For me, one of those filmmakers is Ari Aster. His brand of emotionally devastating and dramatic character studies wrapped up in the…
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Incredible Films That Went Unnoticed In The Best Year of Film This Century
2019 was a cataclysmic wave of masterpieces in the film world. More great films were released last year than other years combined, and there were some very important landmark achievements that were celebrated. “Parasite” is the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture, there were more female-directed films than any other year in history, “Avengers:…
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Review: “Artemis Fowl”: Disney’s Mastery of Destroying Beloved Childhood Properties
As more and more adaptations and reimaginings of classic films and books become more rampant by the year, many major studios have bet wildly expensive production budgets on films adapted from young adult novels. Some like “Hugo”, “Coraline”, “A Monster Calls”, and the “Harry Potter” film saga have turned out incredibly well, with lots of…
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Review: “Shirley”: The Masterful Resurgence of Cinema Regurgitance
The pattern of filmed biopics is a dire and desolate one. Ever since the 78th Academy Awards in 2005, when the manipulative and dull film “Crash” won Best Picture for its shallow depiction of racial tension, filmmaker Spike Lee coined the term “Oscar bait”, a type of film that studios saw the potential of producing…
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“DEVS”: Reinvigorating Science Fiction on A Quantum Level
As long as science fiction has been created for the silver screen, artists have used the genre as a means of exploring existentialist concepts too scary for the human mind to process. “What does it mean to be alive?” “Do living beings have free will?” “Is the universe predetermined, as we live out a laundry…