The Symmetry of Family

The Phoenician Scheme is characteristically and uniquely a Wes Anderson film, through and through. Following along with the visual style of Asteroid City and his latest short films, each scene is meticulously crafted, with striking detail to the production design and vibrancy of color. With every new film, Anderson’s films follow a very theatrical way of storytelling and dialogue, as though the characters are reading verbatim from the script of a play. Deadpan humor is the…

There’s nothing that I love more than original horror setting records at the box office. Ryan Coogler is a visionary and maestro behind the camera, crafting thoughts and ideas into a lore-seeped world. It’s intelligent cinema for the masses, transforming real-world horrors into something otherworldly. The music of Sinners isn’t just for music’s sake; it’s richly historical and cultural, and as deeply engrained into the core of the film as any of the characters. 

Original cinema will always be the…

I enjoyed Fear Street 1994 a bit more upon rewatch, as I appreciate the story's creativity more now that we’ve gotten a plethora of generic slashers in recent years. While the killers are generic, I like the idea of having this figure in Sarah Fier being in control over them through the curse she put on the town. The lore of both Sarah Fier and the neighboring cities of Sunnyvale & Shadyside is intriguing enough that it makes the audience eager to…