Mother! Is One The Year’s Best Pictures

Image Credit to Indiewire The following review contains spoilers. Mother!’s first full scene begins with a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) reaching across her bed. When she feels nothing but air and the softness of her mattress, she heads downstairs to find her husband (Javier Bardem). Director Darren Aronofsky uses this situation to craft an atmosphereContinue reading “Mother! Is One The Year’s Best Pictures”

“Snowden” Fails as a Look Into Snowden’s Inner Turmoil, But Succeeds as a Love Story

Image Credit to Variety The last thing we see before Snowden’s end credits sequence is a title card informing us that Edward Snowden resides in Russia, a country he wishes to leave, but cannot because the United States revoked his passport after he stole secret documents and gave them to the press. There’s a pauseContinue reading ““Snowden” Fails as a Look Into Snowden’s Inner Turmoil, But Succeeds as a Love Story”