Emily Strong

I think that everyone knows that those early teen years were…confusing…to say the least. Everyone has had their own traumatizing experiences from that time (whether you choose to remember them or not)...
“You’re insane…but you might also be brilliant.” When does a joke go on for too long? Isn’t the point to make the audience laugh? If you’re a comedian, then the answer to the latter would most likely...
“The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.” It starts on a boat – an ocean liner headed to New York. Two strangers who enjoy a life of indulgences have a chance meeting when a...
When exactly are you supposed to have your life all figured out? Some people know straight out of high school with their college and career paths plus future family plans laid out step-by-step. For ot...
“Talk to me later. I’m killing myself.” With a noose hanging around his neck, dramatically (and quite insincerely) calling out the name of the gorgeous chambermaid he is in love with, this is probably...
“Are you looking for laughs…or are you soul searching?” The reception of Douglas Sirk films have been…let’s say: mixed. Audiences of the time of its release in 1956 flocked to his pictures, but critic...
Cue the music and pull back the “safety curtain.” You are in for a fun one. It is one of the most over-looked projects in Alfred Hitchcock ’s filmography, but Stage Fright , has no shortage of suspens...
“I like being shipwrecked!” As far as Hitchcock romantic comedies go, well…you probably did not even know one existed! (I did not even know one existed). In fact, the whole idea that Alfred Hitchcock...
Well, this one definitely flew under the radar. After its initial premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival , Mass quietly made its festival rounds, then only to be played in a very few select theat...
Perhaps one of, if not the most important film movement in cinema’s history is that of the French New Wave, that made its audacious emergence in the late 1950’s and lasted until about the late 1960’s....
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” Coming off the 2018’s western anthology film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs , audiences were probably not anticipating the Coen brothers...
“Immoral women shouldn't work in banks, you know. They might corrupt the young dollar bills.” Small towns can be so wonderful, can’t they? Everybody knows one another so well. It can be like having on...
“The mob doesn’t think. It has a mind of its own.” In 1933, some loud-mouthed man with a tiny mustache and a weird haircut rose to power in the country of Germany. His name, I believe, was Adolf Hitle...
It’s quite hard to believe that the writer/director of such a modest, coming-of-age tale like Songs My Brothers Taught Me is the same person who just delivered us Marvel ’s latest installment, Eternal...
Continuing his string of slow-burn, meditative science fiction films, director Denis Villeneuve ’s version of Dune has finally given the epic tale a much-deserved justice. Now…I am not here to drag Da...