Tim Burton’s recent feature films haven’t quite hit his usual mark. While the series Wednesday achieved success, his work has been more miss than hit lately. With the announcement of the long-awaited sequel to Beetlejuice, […]
Author: Jack Yates
Anora Review: Sean Baker’s Bold Leap into High-Stakes Glamour and Grit
This week, I was lucky enough to attend the Cambridge Film Festival. Among the wide variety of shorts and features chosen for the event, by far the largest-scale attraction was Anora, a major contender for […]
James Cameron’s Next Epic: Can The Last Train from Hiroshima Balance Heart and Spectacle?
It has been announced that the next film James Cameron plans to work on after wrapping up the next two Avatar films is the historical epic The Last Train from Hiroshima. The film will tell […]
Paul Thomas Anderson: The Unmatched Evolution of an Auteur
Paul Thomas Anderson is special. He’s been stunning us with his intimate, yet brutal depictions of complicated, dense, and memorable characters for the last 30 years. He’s a unique voice and a standout compared even […]
Black Swan Ending Explained: Nina’s Final Performance and the Death of Innocence
She dies as she can’t replicate that performance again The ending of Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan may be challenging or difficult to comprehend for some viewers, but that’s okay because I am here to try […]
Contextualizing Nuclear Horror in‘Godzilla’ and ‘Threads’
In this article, I will discuss the threat of Nuclear weaponry conveyed both literally and metaphorically in the films “Godzilla” (1954) and “Threads” (1984), the contexts in which they were made, their purpose, and how […]