View Dissected Scene Here This scene takes place when Sam, Frodo, and Sméagol are in Osgiliath with Faramir and his men. During this time, the city is failing to stop Sauron’s army from overrunning it. Also, Merry and Pippen are rallying the Elks in order to destroy the mines in Isengard while Gandalf, Aragorn, Legalos, […]Read Post ›
Reading both professional and amateur critics’ scathing reviews of the astoundingly terrible film Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice has been great fun; but sadly, many of them also demonstrate how we are all so accustomed to misogyny in superhero movies it can seem pointless to keep discussing it. All the think pieces on the […]Read Post ›
The Oscars is a time for people to appreciate film as an art form and all of the different pieces that make it possible. This event has been put on our entire lives and therefore it has become normalized so we do not question its existence. But why is it the biggest, most popular form […]Read Post ›
I could write an entire book breaking down this movie. There are so many aspects of it that are larger than life, yet somehow it all comes out as a subtle scream. See, it’s a loud and aggressive movie, but it’s tender and quiet in its own right. This ingenious juxtaposition reflects and defines the […]Read Post ›
It’s that time of year again, when ‘Let It Go‘ blasts from every loudspeaker across every mall across America. But there’s more to Frozen, and its queen, than meets the eye.
We re-watch movies and binge-watching television shows that we have memorized. If we know the endings and we know all the jokes, why are we truly watching these things? One would say it is for the experience, but is not the experience lessened each time we re-watch something? In real life, if we go somewhere […]Read Post ›
Disney has received a lot of criticism over the years. I recently heard an opinion that piqued my interest and made me want to delve into the deep dark world of Disney’s character development. This opinion in particular had to do with whether or not Belle from Beauty And The Beast is a good person, but […]Read Post ›
It is not a secret that Hollywood creates very few movies with female protagonists outside of the romance genre. This is based off of the archaic yet pervasive idea that self-reliant woman leads do not sell tickets. Reese Witherspoon and her business partner Bruna Papandrea aim to disrupt this widespread sexist notion through the creation […]Read Post ›
In our culture there has been this constant interest in the lives of film actresses. We dig into their relationships, their friendships, and their beauty routines, but what a lot of people overlook is the good work that they do for society. This is especially apparent with classic actresses that we have put on pedestals […]Read Post ›
When a book contains main characters that are in their teen years and plots that deal with teenage issues, they are labeled as young adult books, but when they are translated into films there are a lot more aspects that must be dealt with in order to draw in that teen crowd. From the cinematography […]Read Post ›
