Tag: Reviews

There are only a handful of moments during Ari Aster‘s unnerving, horrorsome new flick, Midsommar, were you find yourself chuckling. If only for a second….

Well, you voted, and then you waited for the results. You dug deep into your memories of 1988 in Film, as others desperately flocked to…

The editor-in-chief at Filmotomy would like to personally thank Allison for not only the extensive coverage of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but also for…

Every year, countless directors make their directorial debuts offering new voices and perspectives, which have the power to leave a surprising impact on audiences with…

Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood is a graphic retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth as told in feudal Japan. Although the film does not carry with it any of…

Japanese cinema from the 1950s remains one of the strongest periods in film ever. With masters in cinema such as Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita, and,…

Child actress, now eleven years old, Helena Zengel, has made the natural progression to sensation look like a breeze. Within seconds of watching her play…

From 1956 to 1960, director Budd Boetticher and actor Randolph Scott collaborated on seven westerns together. These films were made on the cheap, done fast,…

1957 was a seminal year for Ingmar Bergman. He released two films that year. The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) and Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället). Both…

We live in a society driven by attention. In the era of social media, attention is the most powerful tool and weapon that one can…

Pyaasa (1957) (literally “thirsty,” but known as The Thirsty One in English) is the cinematic triumph of the middle twentieth century that most cinema lovers…

Zero Hour! opens with a dogfight sequence as an America squad led by Ted Stryker. Their mission is to destroy a high priority target. Using fog as…

How well does this version of A Farewell to Arms hold up? Unfortunately, the answer is not very. Despite the talents of Rock Hudson and…

There’s a question that every cinephile has answered at least once in their lives. Have you ever been asked, what film made you realized that…