This essay will openly discuss details of mother!, and is meant to explore its symbolism. If you want the film to remain a surprise, do not read the following. Darren Aronofsky’s mother! was released on the 15th of September to mixed critical reviews, box office failure, and widespread audience scorn (it is one of the few films in...
Author - Witney Seibold
Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, based on a long-running – and deeply influential – series of French comic books by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières, is a bracing, unique, vivacious, visually glorious sci-fi adventure that gleefully vibrates with...
We review Alien: Covenant I may personally be one of the only enthused fans of Ridley Scott’s 2012 film Prometheus, but I am not the only person who is going to be disappointed by Scott’s follow-up film Alien: Covenant, the sixth film in the Alien series (although it may be the eighth, if you count the Alien vs. Predator movies, which...
'The Handmaiden's is not only one of the best films of 2016, but a salient analysis of The Male Gaze in a porn-inflected world.
Witney Seibold runs down the feminist elements of the excellent 2016 Iranian horror film.
One cannot fault Warner Bros. for their economy. With Suicide Squad – the third film in their ambitious and expansive multi-film DC comics movie series – studio executives shrewdly elected to introduce their cinematic universe’s supervillains all at once, dumping them, like two scoops of raisins, into the overpopulated bowl of superhero...
There was a time when Star Trek strode the Earth like a might colossus, unshakable in its success, unerring in its ethos, unmatched in its merchandising. There was a time when two new Star Trek series were airing simultaneously, movies were making money (sometimes) at the box office, and Trek conventions were bigger business than ever. Around 2000...
Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters has been one of the most hotly anticipated remakes to come along since Hollywood’s wholesale pirate plundering of Gen-X nostalgia first began about 12 or 13 years ago. It has finally come to bear, and the truth can finally be discovered: It’s merely adequate. Ghostbusters, a remake of the...
Back in 1970, beloved children’s author Roald Dahl, perhaps against his better judgment, hesitantly allowed Paramount to make a film version of his hit 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The resulting film, 1971’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder – has become an...
Nicholas Stoller’s Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising was released in theaters last week to semi-positive reviews and modest success. The general critical consensus was that the story was largely repeated from the first film, and while it was funny, there was nothing too notably unique about the flick. The story, in case one may not be familiar...