Over the decades, we have seen a variety of Spider-Man movies and TV shows, but each one seems to have a slightly different origin story, characters, and storylines. This is because each of these Spider-People is from a variety of parallel universes. I thought it would be handy to summarize the Spider-People you have encountered … Read more
Suzume is a 2022 Japanese Anime romantic fantasy written and directed by the amazing Makoto Shinkai, whose Your Name blew our minds. The movie follows a young girl who encounters a young man searching for abandoned areas with doors and ends up helping him prevent a supernatural Worm from causing earthquakes across Japan. As always, … Read more
Thelma is a 2017 Norwegian supernatural psychological thriller directed by Joachim Trier and written by Eskil Vogt. The film follows the story of Thelma, a young woman who moves from her rural home to attend university in Oslo, where she begins to experience strange and dangerous supernatural powers. The film explores themes of identity, sexuality, … Read more
Being John Malkovich is, to this day, one of the strangest, most surreal movie experiences ever. It explores the concepts of manipulation, infidelity, and obsessive love, through the lens of being able to possess the body of John Malkovich. Traveling through time might be a familiar movie theme but transporting your consciousness to another person’s body is entirely … Read more
The theme, ideas, and setting of As Above, So Below had immense potential. After all, what can go wrong when you put together Dante’s Inferno, the Paris Catacombs, and a story of adventure and redemption? Quite a bit, as it turns out. The key to any good story is its narrative techniques, its characters, and most importantly, its … Read more
The brilliant Darren Aronofsky‘s The Fountain is a masterpiece film in magical realism that has romance seeping from its every crevice. The movie is metaphorical and about love spanning centuries with its roots in metaphysics and spiritualism. If you watch the multi-layered film in the right state of mind, it might even help you overcome your … Read more
Episode 9 of Season 3 of Love, Death and Robots is called Jibaro. The story follows a Siren smitten with a soldier who is unaffected by her deathly scream. The animation in this short is so good that most people are going around confirming if this episode was not live-action. There is no dialogue, and … Read more
Bubble is a 2022 Japanese anime romantic fantasy film directed by Tetsurō Araki, who brought us many episodes of the anime series Death Note. The film is set in a dystopian Tokyo, which no longer follows the classic laws of gravity thanks to the arrival of mysterious bubbles that wreaked havoc. It’s not a film … Read more
During its ten years of production, Mr. Nobody (2009), a romantic fantasy directed by Jaco Van Dormel, became the main hope of European auteur cinema, but this film made a mixed impression. Some people found an empty pathos of eternal questions without any attempt at a clear answer, but for others, the film was a … Read more
Night Watch (2004) might be described in various ways, but “conventional” and “dreary” are not one of them. Instead, the picture has the dual merits of being daring and exhilarating, but it has a constricted and chaotic plot that culminates in a conclusion that doesn’t explain the build-up. The biggest letdown with Night Watch is … Read more