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Film reviews covering classics, international cinema and new releases. Each review explains the plot and ending, judges the craft, and asks what the film says beyond its story.

Bond Girls and Bonds: From Ursula Andress to Léa Seydoux Who Kept Us Bemused for 6 Decades with their Beauty and Charms

Bond girls

The Bond girls are generally of the well-defined standard of beauty, as they always possess a wonderful figure and are habitually dressed in a muscular and assertive fashion.

The Shawshank Redemption 1994: Examining the Psychological Toll of Institutionalization

The Shawshank Redemption and hope and institutionalization

The Shawshank Redemption sheds light on one’s institutionalization and the hope that one can retain even when one is to live in a hellish situation.

Cleopatra 1963 Movie Review: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, and Power of Love and Love of Power that One Must Watch Know

Cleopatra 1963 film review

Cleopatra 1963 is one of the greatest, most expensive, and most spectacular historical drama films of Hollywood that has ever … Read more

Schindler’s List Movie 1993 and Colors of Religious Hatred and Bloody Ideologies

Schindler's List film 1993 review

Schindler’s List is an American historical drama film based on Australian novelist Thomas Keneally’s book Schindler’s Ark that depicts how … Read more

Before Trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013): The Best Films On Philosophical Pursuit

Before Trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013): The Best Films On Philosophical Pursuit

Before Trilogy is an American romance film sequel directed by Richard Linklater consisting of Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight … Read more

The Terminal Man Merhan Karimi Nasseri And The Terminal 2004

The Terminal 2004 movie review

The Iranian man, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who inspired the 2004 Hollywood film The Terminal and lived in the Charles de … Read more

All Quiet on The Western Front 1930, 1979 and 2022: repeated presentation of WWI history

All Quiet on the Western Front 1930

All Quiet on The Western Front or Im Westen nichts Neues is a 1930 anti-war film based on the 1929 … Read more

Boyhood 2014: Unexpected Film that Took 12 Years of Making

Boyhood movie 2014 review

Directed by Richard Linklater Boyhood is the story of a boy, Mason, who went through many familial obstacles to reach … Read more

In the Mood for Love 2000: where the cheated couples find love

In the Mood for Love 2000: where the cheated couples find love

In the Mood for Love is a Chinese film about a married woman and a married man who became lovers after knowing that they have been cheated on by their spouses.

Dead Poets Society 1989: Orthodoxy Is The Obstacle To Freethinking

Dead Poets Society 1989 film review

Dead Poets Society 1989 by Robin Williams is a story about an English teacher of Welton Academy and one, Neil, … Read more

Gone With The Wind 1939 is an unconventional retelling of American Civil War history

Gone with the wind 1939 film review

Gone with the Wind 1939 (1939) is a superbly made studio epic and a one-sided, comforting picture of the slaveholding … Read more

Chinatown Film 1974 And The Water Wars The World Awaits

Chinatown 1974 film review

Chinatown (1974) was a Roman Polanski film inspired by the true events of Owens Valley ‘Water War’ of the early … Read more

Black Mirror and Reality: How the 2011 Technological Series Predicted Our Chilling Future World

Black Mirror and Reality: How the Series Predicted Our Current World

Black Mirror and reality isn’t just a catchy comparison—it’s a chilling reflection of how our world is evolving. The groundbreaking … Read more

101 Best Films You Need to See, Even the Ones That Break Your Heart

101 best films you need to see

An essential guide to the greatest films of the past century, featuring 101 must-see movies for cinephiles.

On The Waterfront (1954) And The Unforgettable Sibling Relations of Prison Break (2006) and Conviction (2010)

On The Waterfront 1954 film review

On The Waterfront (1954) is a romantic drama film that portrays a relationship between a convent nurse, Edie, and a … Read more

The Verdict (1982): Paul Newman, a Boston Lawyer and a Botched Surgery

The Verdict 1982 film review

The Verdict (1982) is a wonderful film based on an independent Massachusetts attorney at law, Galvin, who fought for a victim of medical negligence.

Apocalypse Now 1979 Review: Quest of Harrowing Vision of War And the Evil Forces of Evildoers

Apocalypse Now 1979 film review

Apocalypse Now (1979) is a confessional historical film based on Captain Willard’s mission to terminate a green beret outlaw Colonel … Read more

Children Of Heaven 1997 And the Heaven That Exists Only in Poverty not in success

Children of heaven 1997 film review

Children Of Heaven (1997) is an Iranian film based on the story of a nine-year-old boy, Ali, and his sister, … Read more

Journey into the Heart of Darkness: Apocalypse Now 1979 Film Review

Apocalypse Now 1979 film review

From the horrors of Vietnam to the heart of darkness, Apocalypse Now takes us on a journey like no other. Our review of the 1979 film awaits.

The Parent Trap 1961: when parents are trapped by the twines to fall in love twice

The Parent Trap 1961 film review

The Parent Trap 1961 is a drama-comedy that depicts how two separated twin sisters met at a school camp accidentally to unite their separated parents.

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory 1971: manner matters more than privilege

Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory 1971 movie review

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory 1971 film is based on the British writer Roald Dahl’s children’s book Charlie and … Read more

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