Movies Explained
GLADIATOR: Ridley Scott's "Larger Than Life" Epic Explained
Gladiator and Braveheart mark the return of epic historical films to contemporary cinema screens.
INHERENT VICE: P.T. Anderson’s Most Underrated Film Explained
Paul Thomas Anderson’s films resist easy classification and categorization, but it can be stated that Inherent Vice—his seventh feature...
BLACK SWAN vs. PERFECT BLUE: Homage, Plagiarism, Adaptation?
Among other things, thanks to Natalie Portman’s Oscar-winning performance, Black Swan became one of Darren Aronofsky’s most acclaimed works.
DIRTY HARRY. The One and Only Harry Callahan "Exposed"
San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is undoubtedly one of the most iconic characters in cinema and simultaneously one of Clint...
UNDER THE SILVER LAKE: Neo-Noir Puzzle of a Movie Decrypted
Under the Silver Lake, the third feature film by director David Robert Mitchell, belongs to the genre of cinematic puzzles—films that are much more...
THE SHELTERING SKY. Bertolucci's Visually Stunning Opus Deciphered
The cultural interpretation of the journey motif as an entrance into another, foreign world is a topic eagerly explored by writers and poets, and for...
8½: Federico Fellini’s Seminal Masterpiece Deciphered
I have the impression that the poetic force, which erupts in Fellini’s opus magnum – 8½…
V FOR VENDETTA: Cult Comic Book Adaptation Decrypted
The Wachowski siblings, acclaimed visionary creators of the best science fiction film of the last decade of the 20th century, wrote the...