The Substance’s themes, meaning, ending, and real life application. The Substance is similar to Perfect Blue and Black Swan in that it reflects on a woman’s obsession with her profession. But also ...

On its surface, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds narrates a tale of unexplained, violent attacks by birds in the tranquil setting of Bodega Bay, a picturesque coastal town.In this comforting northern ...

The end of MaXXXine and Pearl. I love this. I really do. So Pearl ends with Pearl abandoning her dream of being a star. Having failed to make the dance troupe, her entire sense of self comes crashing ...

What is I Saw the TV Glow about?. I Saw the TV Glow is about crossroads in identity. You have two characters. One embraces their true self and escapes the suburbs. While the other is too scared so ...

Below you’ll find the notes I made while preparing for our essential explanation of Us. This was my first time seeing the movie since it came out in theaters in 2019. So it’s been 3 years. There’s a ...

Poor Things is, like most Yorgos films, strange. But also mostly straightforward. Bella’s child-like perspective of the world allows the film to question ...

One way to read Saltburn is, like Parasite, as a film focused on economic class disparities. Felix and the Catton family represent the top-end ultra-wealthy.

Speak No Evil has more going on than just an excellent performance from James McAvoy. It has two primary themes. One, the importance of healthy honesty. And two, the influence of parents on children.

Man, Naomi Scott gave everything she had to Smile 2 to convey Skye Riley’s grief, trauma, and struggle. One of the most memorable horror performances in recent memory. And Skye feels very much of the ...

One of the cool things M. Night does is limit audience perspective in two ways. First: We start in media res. Meaning, in the middle of the story. The opposite is abo ovo, which means “from the egg”, ...

Tetsurō Araki, famous for his anime series Attack on Titan and his Netflix film Death Note, took a noticeably lighter turn with his latest creation: Bubble.Part love story, part existential struggle, ...

Transformers One’s themes, meaning, ending, and real-life application. Transformers One overall theme has to do with the idea of “protocol” and how insidious it can be, on both the personal and ...