Peg (Zoey Deutch) is a precocious twenty-year-old who has grown up on the lower end of the economic spectrum in the city of Buffalo, where she’d had a long life of being on the margins and never truly being able to have the life she feels she deserves. As a result, she makes use of…
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Perhaps a cynical view, but there are very few instances, if any, of the terms “video game” and “film” going well together – as the past has shown us on countless occasions, mainstream attempts to bring beloved gaming franchises to the screen have rarely ever been successful, with the majority of adaptations being middling at…
Atonement (2007)
How far can a single lie go in changing the course of the lives of several individuals? This is what Atonement, Joe Wright’s wartime drama sets out to answer. Based on the novel by Ian McEwan, and produced to rapturous applause and adoration that has seemingly persisted over the last decade since its release, this…
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
The Great Depression impacted countless lives and lead people to go to extraordinary measures to try and survive – and in 1932, just over a hundred couples descend on a shabby California ballroom, where they will be taking part in the infamous Mammoth Marathon, a dance competition where the last couple standing will receive a…
I Start Counting (1969)
Wynne (Jenny Agutter) is a precocious young woman whose personality reflects someone far older than her mere fifteen years. The adopted daughter of a working-class family, she is deeply in love with George (Bryan Marshall), her much older adoptive brother, whose mysterious attitude makes him even more irresistible to Wynne, who finds herself taken by…
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Everything that can be said about Midnight Cowboy has already been said – it’s hailed as a classic, a film that helped usher in a new era of cinema, a groundbreaking social masterpiece that challenges heteronormative conventions and gave audiences at the time a chance to view and entirely different kind of story, one gloriously…
Last Summer (1969)
It’s a beautiful summer on Fire Island – Dan (Bruce Davison) and Peter (Richard Thomas) are a pair of young men spending their vacation on the beautiful beaches and luxurious cottages of the idyllic shoreline. They meet Sandy (Barbara Hershey), a young woman, who enters into their lives when she asks them to help her…
The Night of Counting the Years (1969)
In 1881 Egypt, a small community evading colonial rule discover a hidden tomb, from which they slowly extract all the riches, buried with the bodies of long-deceased pharaohs, selling the items to those with an interest in rare and unusual items. One of the only people vehemently against these corrupt actions is Wanis (Ahmed Marei),…
Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969)
When it comes to Birds, Orphans and Fools (Slovak: Vtáčkovia, siroty a blázni), there are only two kinds of people who understand it – those who lived through the Prague Spring and can account for the social and political turmoil demonstrated here, and those who are mentally unstable enough to grasp this fever-dream of a…
My Night at Maud’s (1969)
Insatiable desire and irreconcilable faith are the basis for My Night at Maud’s (French: Ma nuit chez Maud), the darkly comical social fable from Éric Rohmer, who was at the peak of exploring his interest in the influence of morality (or rather the lack thereof) on the human condition, and how the smallest idiosyncrasies of…
The Postmodern Pelican 