CLASSIC PICKS AND NEW RELEASES
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Mother Mary
Mother Mary is ambitious but ultimately pretentious and poorly executed, hiding behind its abstract visuals and showy performance moments while failing to deliver the emotional depth or clear narrative payoff its quiet opening seems to promise, despite strong ideas and one isolated standout sequence.
Throwback Thursday
Paprika
Paprika succeeds for Satoshi Kon as a bold and complex blend of dream and technology solidifying him as one of the best animated directors of all time, using imaginative visuals and layered storytelling to create a unique experience that thrives on creativity and chaos.
New Reviews
Exit 8
Exit 8 succeeds more as a psychological, game-logic driven drama than a horror film, delivering a creative and emotionally grounded 95-minute experience that works because of its concept and performances, even if it loses momentum once the concept is fully laid out...
Pizza Movie
Pizza Movie is a shockingly fun and chaotic new Hulu dorm room comedy that fully commits to its ridiculous premise, throwing everything at the audience and, despite its limitations as a basic comedy, succeeds by delivering exactly what it sets out to...
The Drama
The Drama is an incredibly well-shot and performance driven dark romance that takes a bold and wildly uncomfortable premise and turns it into a psychologically engaging experience, even if its tone and structure make it a divisive and at times difficult to sit with film...
Articles
TwilightRoom’s Four Favorite Films
In the spirit of the Letterboxd top 4 this article lists the Twilight Room's personal four favorite films, their effect on cinema and their personal effect on me as a cinephile...
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project #5 – A Criterion Tuesday Article
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project #5 is a deeply varied and culturally rich collection within the criterion brand that showcases four films unified by their commitment to identity and survival, each using distinct cinematic styles to create experiences that feel both historically grounded and artistically timeless, in...
Criterion Tuesday
Coup De Torchon
Coup de Torchon reworks the noir into something far more uncontrollable and ironic of a story, using its setting, tone, and character descent to expose violence and moral decay in a way that feels both detached and deeply...
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project #5 – A Criterion Tuesday Article
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project #5 is a deeply varied and culturally rich collection within the criterion brand that showcases four films unified by their commitment to identity and survival, each using distinct cinematic styles to create experiences that feel both historically grounded and artistically timeless, in...
The Dead
Huston’s The Dead is a beautifully constructed, dialogue-heavy film that captures the quiet weight of reflection, love, and insignificance, culminating in one of the most powerful and understated cinematic endings in film history. ...
Throwback Thursday
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
McCabe and Mrs. Miller is a quietly devastating and visually masterful epic revisionist Western that, through its gorgeous cinematography, intelligent performances, and unconventional Altman storytelling, established itself as one of the greats films in the western genre...
Spawn
Spawn (1997) captures the look and ambition of the 90s comic book era, but ultimately fails to translate its darker source material into a compelling or well-executed film being its design and a few isolated...
The Big Heat
The Big Heat is not just another film noir like the rest, it is the definition of what the noir film stands for. Fritz Lang shows the viewer how a detective thriller should be made, with his use of shadow, camera movement, and pure, direct dialogue to capture an audience from the 1950s and current day...