Brainwashed. Sex-Camera-Power

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Elucidates the Male Gaze in Penetrating Fashion for the Modern Age  Written by Margaret Rasberry January 23rd, 2022  When Laura Mulvey published her seminal essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema in 1973, it was an enlightening and unnerving moment in the history of film scholarship and the first official theoretical framework of analyzing

The Worst Person in the World (2021)

The Worst Person in the World Examines Millennial Ennui with Cathartic Sincerity  Written by Margaret Rasberry on January 22nd, 2022  Joachim Trier’s films have always concerned themselves with the existential trappings of everyday existence, his characters so vividly realised that they become easily identifiable with ourselves, our own personhood, how we fall in love, how

Scream (2021)

Scream Fails to Recapture the Terror of the Original, but is a Frightfully Fun Return  Written by Margaret Rasberry January 21st, 2022  “Do you Like Scary Movies?” the indelibly creepy synthesized voice asked Casey, played in a career revitalizing role by Drew Barrymore in the opening scene of the original Scream (1996) that has become

Belle Review

Belle (2021) Weaves an Enchanting Humanist Fable In the Metaverse  Written by Margaret Rasberry January 21st, 2022  *This review contains slight spoilers* The internet has given us the illusion of closeness; never before have we been able to connect with people and renowned figures through our social media, that often the face one presents online is

Animals Review

Animals heralds a new cult classic for the burn out generation  Sundance 2019 Review  Independent; 109 min.  Director: Sophie Hyde  Written by Margaret Rasberry  When does a woman cease to be able to party, hang out, have casual no strings attached sex, and drugs? When does she relinquish a part of herself to become a

Paradise Hills Review

Paradise Hills makes a sumptuous, yet, dull affair  Sundance 2019 Review  95 minutes  Director: Alice Waddington  Written by Margaret Rasberry  Paradise Hills will be a resplendent feast to the eye, but beneath the sumptuous, albeit at times gauzy exterior, the interior of the story remains flat and disjointed. The film begins with the character of