Professor Gokester·Oct 10Witness (1985)This shot from Witness immediately caught my eye. We see Rachel, played by Kelly McGillis, tend to a passed-out John Book, played by…
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InFanfarebySimon Dillon·May 28, 2024Peter Weir: Seven Essential FilmsAustralia’s greatest director remains criminally underratedA response icon64A response icon64
Darrell Forest·Apr 15, 20243 Things You Can Learn from… The Truman ShowAfter headlining three back-to-back hits in 1994 (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber), Jim Carrey became Hollywood’s…
Jordan Eve·Sep 16, 2023The Holy Trinity of Peter Weir FilmsNow, I am not a film major, and I don’t exactly have excellent taste. But when it comes to movies that make one feel a hunger for life as…
Charlie Fountaine·Sep 1, 2022Dead Poet’s Society is simple enoughI’ve always been drawn to morally ambiguous stories — protagonists living on the tenuous edge of evil, audiences not knowing whether they…
