Tag: Anya Taylor-Joy
Furiosa: She Found Love in a Hopeless Place
If there’s any movie/film franchise that’s more relevant to the moment, it’s Mad Max. Or, in this case, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Released almost [Read More…]
The Rich Eat: The Menu
At the crux of every basic class divide is food. It is the most essential unit of life, and yet, it took little time at [Read More…]
F Is For Fascism, Not Freedom: Amsterdam Shows That, When It Comes to the Many Incongruities of U.S. Politics, History Repeats
Considering David O. Russell is the type of person who would write his college thesis on the United States intervention in Chile, his commitment to [Read More…]
White Folk Sure Are Crazy: The Northman
“Hate is all I’ve ever known. I want to be free of it.” Wanting and doing, of course, are two entirely different things. Particularly for [Read More…]
No Adjudication Needed: The Queen’s Gambit Wins the Brilliancy Prize
As a man who largely made his legacy out of “game” books (namely, The Hustler and The Color of Money), one of the few novels [Read More…]
Never Underestimate the Value of Having a Schizoid Friend: Thoroughbreds
First-time writer-director Cory Finley might have had the fortune of attending Yale–the embodiment of New England privilege–but he somehow never lost his empathy, though he [Read More…]
The Beast Within: Split
There is a belief among those who would be deemed objectively as masochists that to suffer is to be great. The more you suffer, the [Read More…]
