Emily Strong

In a family-owned butcher shop situated in a sun-scorched small town, we meet Sara ( Laura Galán ) – an overweight teenager who is constantly bombarded with the merciless bullying and gossip of other...
Can a movie that is a mess also be considered genius? Well, that is the perpetual debate about Orson Welles ’ The Lady from Shanghai . Based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King , this...
On again, off again. In love, out of love. Going back to school, starting a new job. Everything is fluid and everything is changing in the whimsical and lustful drama from French director Jacques Audi...
On again, off again. In love, out of love. Going back to school, starting a new job. Everything is fluid and everything is changing in the whimsical and lustful drama from French director Jacques Audi...
We’ll call them the classic, the prequel, and the sequel. Breaking the mold of the cop/detective story that audiences of the time were all too familiar with, the writers ( Felix Chong and Alan Mak ) a...
I must admit, this one has me conflicted. Based on Sidney Kingsley ’s Broadway play of the same name, William’s Wyler ’s adaptation of Detective Story deals with a handful of rather outdated themes th...
“Jaaaaaaaaaammmmmeeeessss!” We’re only about one month into 2023 and there is already a film to come out that has left me completely and utterly stunned. It shocks you; it makes you squirm, and it hyp...
“I’ve written myself into my screenplay.” Leave to Charlie Kaufman (with the help of “Donald Kaufman”) to pen one of the most neurotic and meta stories ever that also manages to be mind-blowingly inno...
How does one cure a drought-ridden town in the middle of Kansas? Well, you call the handsome and charming rainmaker of course! And maybe he can bring more than just a little rain to this Midwest rural...
“Some things there’s no moving on from.” The concept of The Banshees of Inisherin is something so simple. Yet from it there spouts a well of introspective and evocative questions that perhaps every hu...
“I like to remember things my own way.” When Fred Madison ( Bill Pullman ), a saxophone player based in Los Angeles, speaks these words to detectives in the beginning of Lost Highway , Lynch, I feel,...
With a deadline looming over the troubled sailors, Hal Ashby ’s The Last Detail makes the film’s numbered days last as long as possible with its simple plot and generous humanity. Starring Jack Nichol...
“You either are a star or you ain’t. And honey, I am.” Every once in a while, there is a movie that comes along that leaves you completely awestruck. A cinematic feat that leaves you in a perpetual st...
A bit similar to his acclaimed 2017 film, Call Me by Your Name , with his latest film, Bones and All , director Luca Guadagnino tackles another forbidden love story. But this one requires, let’s just...
On again, off again. In love, out of love. Going back to school, starting a new job. Everything is fluid and everything is changing in the whimsical and lustful drama from French director Jacques Audi...