Loyalty to the source material is a curious thing. In modern terms, although it’s clambered for and scrutinized mercilessly by...
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JoinedMay 26, 2017
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Andrew Root lives in Peterborough, Ontario and has been contributing to Bright Wall/Dark Room since its earliest days on Tumblr.
When I think about Magnolia, I first think about the cosmic improbability of the relationships featured therein.
“Do you feel that playing rock ‘n’ roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state...
The Birdcage's script, direction, and performances afford a dignity and completeness to Albert and Armand’s relationship.
What makes us flock to Christopher Nolan's films with our phones out, Twitter's engine warm and idling, ready to send our judgement out into the void? What have we done to so miss the point of going to the movies?
In An American Tail, America takes on a mythic energy; it is the Golden Fleece, the Holy Grail and armour of Achilles. It is fulfillment, deliverance from trial, protection from evil. It is happiness and it is home.
An ambitious amount of bonkers-level content meant Tank Girl was destined to be a cult film.
In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, "Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) is not a particularly mentionable person."
Gravity provoked in me the strongest sensation of panic that I’ve felt in twenty years.
Certain films, though, are doomed to fall somewhere in the middle of the spectrum: neither beloved enough to be investigated to the nth degree, nor reviled to the point of being fascinating.
What most entices in Julie Taymor's Titus is the images, even without context.
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