To live a life without regrets is a dignified yet arduous excursion. Rarely does one face the future and make consistently good decisions which leave a jet trail in hindsight of what can only be measured as success and triumph. This is the base nature for the anxiety of moving forward and the ease of saturating oneself with living in inauthenticity versus staring into the abyss and....

  With Snowpiercer, it is difficult to avoid the suspension of disbelief at times because of how comically simple the narrative is. The lack of sophistication makes it difficult in other words to take anything seriously, to try and find what the filmmaker is trying to say. By lacking a quality sophistication of the meditation on social hierarchy, chiefly because the film reduces so....

  This is a film very much akin to Adrift in Tokyo and resembling Slackers. Though it is fascinating like Adrift in our ability to absorb a completely alien culture. True, contemporary Germany is not exactly in another galaxy like the Japanese are, but nevertheless it is enjoyable to see the little oddities that make Berlin and Germans tick.   Right out of the gates I....