I first started seriously getting interested in movies when I was about 15. I vividly the moment I began paying attention to and feeling invested in not just the blockbuster fare of the day but also the critically acclaimed films that were garnering Oscar nominations. Over the following years, my curiosity led me beyond contemporary popular films and into the worlds of classic and independent cinema. Which brings me to David Lynch.

Lynch was always a filmmaker who seemed…

"I started to film when we started to end."

One of my favorite aspects of cinema is its unique ability to transport viewers into the perspectives of its subjects. As a visual and aural medium, film is uniquely equipped to provide a window into the lives of others. Few movies embody this more profoundly than No Other Land, which tells the story of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank's Masafer Yatta and it's inhabitants.

While the film focuses on…

Concluding a series is difficult enough let alone wrapping up Hollywood’s greatest action franchise— a vanity project turned love letter to blockbuster filmmaking that’s dazzled audiences for nearly three decades.

I’ve been vocal on this app for years about my love of this series. In an age of reboots and endless brands, the Mission: Impossible franchise has stood tall as an enduring bastion of action cinema, emphasizing the theatrical experience and the thrill of seeing something truly spectacular unfold on…

"Barry was clever enough at gaining a fortune, but much less capable of keeping one. For the qualities and energies which lead a man to achieve the first are, too often, the very cause of his ruin in the latter case,"

A story about a man so detestable that two separate families attempt to pay him to simply go away. Barry Lyndon is a tragic yet somehow hilarious odyssey about the erosion of one man’s spirit in exchange for wealth…