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"On-Screen, Off-Screen" is our new monthly film series created to showcase a more personal retrospective about some of our favourite filmmakers. Each month, one 25YL staffer will choose one of their own favourite filmmakers - be it a director or performer or writer or composer or production designer, etc - and will analyse what it …
Sure, there's nothing quite like experiencing a great movie on the big screen, but why would you leave the comfort of your own home when Netflix is putting out films as special as Cargo? The co-directorial feature film debut by Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke - the latter of whom also wrote the emotionally devastating …
Nature vs. Nurture is one of my favorite philosophical debates. On one side of the ring, René Descartes, suggesting that human beings are born with innate ideas that inform our decision-making and relationship with the world for the rest of our lives. Across from Descartes stands John Locke, who suggested that human beings begin life …
From my point of view, the horror film genre and its future are in a great place right now. The past few years have seen horror triumph beyond anyone's wildest expectations, as audiences have flocked in droves to experience films like Get Out, It: Chapter One, and A Quiet Place in the cinema. Not only …
Continue reading "Modern Horror Cinema: Diversity, Equality & the Future"
The eternal struggle of the human circumstance is discovering the purpose of one's life. We spend countless hours in school, working jobs, or deep in thought attempting to ascertain the reason for our existence. For some, they believe that discovering what they are most passionate about, or that for which they have a particular talent …
Continue reading "Battling Ego and Searching for Love in Boogie Nights"
"On-Screen, Off-Screen" is our new monthly film series created to showcase a more personal retrospective about some of our favourite filmmakers. Each month, one 25YL staffer will choose one of their own favourite filmmakers - be it a director or performer or writer or composer or production designer, etc - and will analyse what it …
Continue reading "On-Screen, Off-Screen: My Life Inspired by Nicolas Winding Refn"
We desperately need to talk about mental health issues, immediately. Inspired by the boldness and rapidity of the #metoo movement, the defining issue of this decade and possibly the century, I feel more comfortable pointing out other elephants still taking up residence in this room. As a heterosexual white male, there are mountains of challenges …
Continue reading "Take Shelter: A Portrait of America’s Mental Health Crisis"
The iconic David Duchovny is one of the most recognisable faces from American TV over the past 25 years, having starred in shows like The X-Files, Californication, and Aquarius. While his film career hasn't reached quite the same heights, he has appeared in a number of high profile films including Richard Attenborough's biographical comedy-drama, Chaplin. …
Continue reading "As Seen on Twin Peaks: David Duchovny in The Joneses"
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," Even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. -Psalm 139:12 He is before all things, and in Him, all things hold together. -Colossians 1:17 “That's the day …
Continue reading "Broken Yet Beautiful: American Beauty from God’s Point of View"
The amazing team here at 25YL has graciously allowed me access to a platform where I can write the kind of film reviews I love writing. Creative freedom like what we’re afforded is difficult to find. Like any decent artist, I push limits, but I won't leave this place until they kick me out the door. Along with …
Continue reading "Fellini’s 8½: A Warning to the Solipsistic Artist"