Timothée Chalamet saved my life: parasocial relationships and the new celebrity
Timothée Chalamet didn’t save my life. Sorry. However, he did like my Instagram story reply in 2018 and sent me into a frenzy. I was far too excited that he…
Don’t Look Up
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ When astronomers Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) discover a meteorite that will cause an extinction-level event in six months, they must get the…
Dune Review
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ After the mixed attempts of adapting Frank Herbert’s Dune into live-action, Denis Villeneuve’s interpretation is not only faithful to the source material but achieves it in spectacular fashion.…
The French Dispatch: A Love Letter to the New Yorker
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Journalists work backstage – we love to talk about other people in the spotlight, but no one ever talks about us. But in Wes Anderson’s fantastical tale about…
Beautiful Boy
Beautiful Boy is visually stunning but is lacking in clarity. The story, based on the memoirs of David and Nic Sheff, tackles the issue of drug addiction and how this…
Why do we keep tuning in to the Oscars?
This week marks the annual gala in which everyone who loves film joins together to celebrate arguably the biggest night in cinema, the Academy Awards. While there are many other…
Call Me By Your Name
The summer of 1983, hidden in a stunning villa, somewhere in northern Italy with hidden pockets of secrecy to escape to; this is where director Luca Guadagnino lays the scene…