The Ides of March or: A Cautionary Tale About The Corruption in All Politics (Film Analysis)

Politics is harsh.  Politics is corrupt.  Politics is cutthroat.

Una Noche or: An Escape Story so True to Life, Its Actors Followed Suit (Film Analysis)

Una Noche (aka one night) extensively explores the lifestyle that resides within Habana Cuba, the harsh and unfair difficulties such life presents to its locals, and the people that try to escape.  

Another Earth or: A Powerfully Bittersweet, Multi-layered Story All Bundled into a Low-Budget Sci-Fi (Film Analysis)

What would it be like to meet yourself?  What would you ask?  What if your other self was a more successful version, or perhaps one that has suffered far more than you?  What would you say?

Ex Machina Revisited or: The Modern Frankenstein (Film Analysis)

The complete title for Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.  Both Prometheus and Frankenstein are cautionary tales of the unintentional consequences of the strive for scientific knowledge, as well as the overreaching of one’s position in life.  If Frankenstein is the modern Prometheus, then Ex Machina is the modern Frankenstein.

Jeff Who Lives at Home or: A Story Modest in Scope, yet Beautifully Successful in its Simplicity (Film Analysis)

Jeff Who Lives at Home is a short, small-budget indie film.  It has a modest, unassuming plot that can easily be overlooked within the swarm of high-stakes, epic blockbusters.  And yet, it is a film that is bursting with heart and surpasses many a multi-million dollar blockbuster.  Jeff (Jason Segel) is a thirty-year-old, unemployed stoner who, as the title suggests, still lives in his parent's house.  Jeff is a peculiar man; the film’s opening scene shows him voice recording his thoughts on the film Signs and its relation to fate and destiny: