Since his debut film Pi in 1998, director Darren Aronofsky has cultivated a unique brand of esoteric cinema that implants itself into audiences’ brains and refuses to nudge, and that’s probably the best way to explain his latest film, mother!…
Movie Review: Step
To the “lethal ladies” of the Baltimore Young Women’s Leadership School “step is life.” The dance’s rhythmic series of chants, claps, and stomps helps channel aggression in a city ripped by turmoil or it can be a positive outlet for…
Interview: Amanda Lipitz and the Ladies of ‘Step’
The fierce women both in front and behind camera of the documentary Step are aware of how special their movie is. Watching the finished product of a film made by women about women is something inspiring to see, and everyone…
Movie Review: Lady Macbeth
The period drama is best identified by it swoon-inducing romantic subplots and heavy melodrama. If the characters in Lady Macbeth stumbled upon the figures from a Jane Austen novel, a fistfight would probably ensue. William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth undoes all…
The world as he knows it comes to an end in Shaun of the Dead
We’re taking a look at what has made each of Edgar Wright’s films great in lead up to the release of Baby Driver. Who hasn’t woken up and thought the world was coming to an end? In Edgar Wright’s Shaun…
Movie Review: The Beguiled
When Clint Eastwood starred in the 1971 Don Siegel drama The Beguiled it was a means of changing up his persona, showing that the action hero could play a leading man who literally drives women to madness. The film is…
Interview: Colin Trevorrow
Colin Trevorrow is a director no one’s quite nailed down. Since his 2012 sci-fi debut, Safety Not Guaranteed, Trevorrow has shot up like a rocket to become a director of blockbuster franchises like Jurassic World and the upcoming Star Wars…
