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The Age of Adaline (2015) by Lee Toland Krieger – Review
What comes to mind whenever I watch The Age of Adaline is the idea of perfection. What does it mean to be perfect? Is it to stay young and beautiful? Or maybe wise and elegant? Blake Lively as Adaline is all of these things. However, she is far from perfect. She never gets old and
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017) by Denis Villeneuve – Review
One of the first things that come to mind when I think about Blade Runner 2049 is how visually enchanting it can be. Not just the costumes, the sets and the award wining visual effects. The cinematography is what truly steals my attention. Blue and orange, white and grey, these are the colors that fill
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The Boy and the Heron (2023) by Hayao Miyazaki – Review
Once I finished watching the Academy Award-winning film The Boy and the Heron, I had to refrain myself from immediately watching it again. That’s how good it is. It is a fantastical story which is loosely based on Hayao Miyazaki’s own life. The whole movie shows how one person manages to build a plethora of
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Requiem for a Dream (2000) by Darren Aronofsky – Review
I consider Darren Aronofsky’s directorial aesthetic as something unprecedented for world cinema. He is indeed an intense filmmaker who is famous for how tough his shots and scenes are. I believe that he is the perfect director to portray a difficult (and objectively everyday) problem such as drug addiction. This film does just that, accompanied
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006) by David Frankel – Review
The Devil Wears Prada is a perfect feel-good film. When you feel that you need to watch something to lift your spirits, this is usually on everyone’s list, and for good reason. From a stellar cast (Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci) to the plot itself, this is a movie that has
