A ranking of every movie Travis Bean has watched since 2022 (he's up to 877 movies). The latest entries include: Gaslight, The Accountant, Gemini Man, The City of the Dead, Friendship, Dark Match, ...

The Substance’s themes, meaning, ending, and real life application. The Substance is similar to Perfect Blue and Black Swan in that it reflects on a woman’s obsession with her profession. But also ...

What is I Saw the TV Glow about?. I Saw the TV Glow is about crossroads in identity. You have two characters. One embraces their true self and escapes the suburbs. While the other is too scared so ...

One way to read Saltburn is, like Parasite, as a film focused on economic class disparities. Felix and the Catton family represent the top-end ultra-wealthy.

On its surface, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds narrates a tale of unexplained, violent attacks by birds in the tranquil setting of Bodega Bay, a picturesque coastal town.In this comforting northern ...

Tetsurō Araki, famous for his anime series Attack on Titan and his Netflix film Death Note, took a noticeably lighter turn with his latest creation: Bubble.Part love story, part existential struggle, ...

Man, Naomi Scott gave everything she had to Smile 2 to convey Skye Riley’s grief, trauma, and struggle. One of the most memorable horror performances in recent memory. And Skye feels very much of the ...

What is Interstellar about?. Interstellar’s primary theme has to do with logic versus emotion.The dynamic permeates almost every part of the film. For example, the school system has turned away from ...

What is The Zone of Interest about?. The Zone of Interest uses a family’s extreme proximity to the Auschwitz concentration camp to explore our capacity to ignore the horrors around us and go about our ...

Stanley Kubrick’s personal connection to Eyes Wide Shut. For all of the wild and fantastical places that Kubrick’s movies go, Eyes Wide Shut is his most ordinary in its depiction of married life.While ...

What is Anatomy of a Fall about? Anatomy of a Fall is about storytelling. Specifically, the relationship between reality and fiction. The film, initially, frames this as the way in which Sandra uses ...

The end of MaXXXine and Pearl. I love this. I really do. So Pearl ends with Pearl abandoning her dream of being a star. Having failed to make the dance troupe, her entire sense of self comes crashing ...