In a world where box office success is often synonymous with spandex, explosions, and cinematic universes, Begin Again remains a quiet triumph, both financially and emotionally. Released in 2013, this unassuming musical drama had none of the conventional ingredients for a blockbuster: no franchise, no billion-dollar marketing campaign and certainly no promise of a sequel. […] More
Falling in love is a universal experience, but you know what else is? Getting the sh*t kicked out of you by love as well. I would be surprised if anyone had not heard of Love Actually the iconic British romantic comedy newly re-released for its 20th Anniversary on Universal 4K disc: it’s a story about […] More
Who is the best actor of any given generation? DeNiro or Pacino? DiCaprio or Damon? Is Meryl Streep or Daniel Day-Lewis the best ever? The trailer for the upcoming sci-thriller film Foe got me thinking: Wow, Saoirse Ronan has had quite a career the last 16 years. Is she the best actor of her generation? […] More
At a crucial moment in Boston Strangler during her ongoing inquest, journalist Loretta McLaughlin, played by headliner Kiera Knightley, poses a pointed question to Alessandro Nivola’s Detective Conley. She asks, “How do you just stop caring after all this?” Representing years of failed leads and public discontent in the police department, Nivola’s inspector thinks for […] More
Though I don’t have the statistics to back this up, it certainly feels like it has been a long time since we got a straight-up adaptation of a classic story on film. And while there are certainly benefits to modernized (or slightly adjusted) looks at classic literature on the big screen, sometimes the rigid duty […] More
Kiera Knightley Leads an Stellar Ensemble in This Important Thriller
Most cinematic eras have their overuse of dramatic varnish in historical retellings as a means of painted shine for grabbing attention and producing supposedly heightened value. This writer will always contend that if a chosen story needs too much of that glitz, where it cannot compel or entertain with its own facts, it should not […] More
When people say, “This is not really a Cronenberg movie,” first of all I point out to them that the first movie I ever made, the first film I ever shot, was called Transfer. And it had two characters: a psychiatrist and his patient [laughs]. So if you go right back to my beginnings as […] More
Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews…you name it, we’ve got it. “Favorites” takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites—whether it’s moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever!—in bite-sized articles perfect […] More
Writing as a queer woman in 2019, I am lucky enough to say that we are currently experiencing a “Lesbian Renaissance” in film and TV. Over last year and the start of this one, there has been an explosion of incredible lesbian and bisexual talent on screen. We were treated to Keira Knightley reclaiming the […] More
“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?” – Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer I can’t remember when I first read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. In hindsight, I was certainly too young to appreciate it. My main memories […] More
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