Sadness Takes Center Stage in This Romantic Comedy: A Review of The Apartment (1960)Figuring out where to start with a review of a film like The Apartment is like trying to figure where exactly you should point your loaded…Mar 25, 2022Mar 25, 2022
How Rossellini and Visconti Made the Most of Music: Rome, Open City (1945) and Ossessione (1943)Many moviegoers will never contemplate the difference between diegetic and non-diegetic music, let alone be familiar with the terms, in…Mar 25, 2022Mar 25, 2022
Modernizing Comic Books to Tell Diverse StoriesThere is almost no easy way to dissect long-standing comic book characters. From series to series, writer to writer, artist to artist, and…Mar 25, 2022Mar 25, 2022
A Dogma for the Authentic DocumentarianThe function of documentary is inherently subjective as the person who makes a movie, a person who views it, and another who extensively…Mar 25, 2022Mar 25, 2022
True Love Found In Unusual Times: Rocky (1976) and Moonstruck (1988)The search for love among Italian-Americans is not an uncommon tale in cinema, but the ways Rocky (1976), directed by Richard Avildsen, and…Mar 25, 2022Mar 25, 2022
