Short Term 12 illustrates the importance in the investment of the future of society’s well-being. Children are 20% of the population yet 100% of the future. But why should anyone care how the future ends up? Why does it matter to leave the world in a better place than how it was given to us? […]

  It has become a law of nature to follow Jesse Eisenberg’s projects. And The Double simply confirms it. While the setting veers too much into Brazil dystopic hysteria, simply with a dash of Fight Club thrown into the bowl before all the ingredients are mixed, there still is an intricate blend at work here. […]

  This is a commendable sophisticated look at gayness. The sophistication lies in the effort at making homosexuality effortless in an age where it could only survive as thus. Of course with such a politically charged issue, it is extremely difficult for a critic to separate the work from the process of creating the work. […]

What exactly is a mental disorder? Is it a personality or brain behavior that is abnormal, or unusual when measured against the typical, the ordinary, the mediocre, the average? Are those with such mentalities that differ from the mean disturbed or at least unnatural and therefore must be medicated? Clearly, as we can see in […]

  This is a challenging work, but not as challenging toward becoming a David Lynch mindfuck. Meaning, the writer/director spares us from the headache of having to transcend the expected cinematic grammar that has been used since the artistic medium’s creation and has predictably been accorded based on its rational correspondence with the ordering of […]

  A Short History of Decay shows the decay of a family, even though it cleverly aims to concentrate on the ailing aging of the protagonist’s parents. Nathan’s father has just had a stroke, compelling him to fly down to nurse him back to health, while his mother would be incapable at the task due […]

  The English Teacher tries to feign an explication of one woman’s idiosyncrasy in a vanilla Pennsylvania world. The idea that she is a lover of words and has always been “different” because of that in general is nice. But the execution of that idea is much harder to pull off. The effort shown in […]

  In this British rom com, I’d Give it a Year explores the meaning or rather meaninglessness of marriage these days. Often the case with the contemporary paradigm of inherited institutions in film, marriage is seen as just another thing people check off of their to do list in life without actually examining why they […]

  Goodbye World is so bad that it’s good. It so foozles the understanding of the human condition that it turns, inside out, the discombobulating of the filmmaker’s interpretation of what it means to be human into a demonstration of what is wrong with upholding weakness as virtuousness.   This framework is possible because the […]

  Out of the Furnace does an elegant and masterful job of examining the reality of the lumpenproletariat. The men who grind out the essentials for life, but because the labor is so primitive it can be handled by so many, and thus the lack of quality in the essence of the work raises the […]