Marissa      the      Cinephile

OK, so it's a poorly acted film. It's plot is recognizable, absolutely predictable from a universal standpoint. The dialogue is too...

I’m going to say it. This would have made for a better short film. Two hours is too long. Trim off the fat, tighten the story line, have...

PIG is like a weird, quiet, simply profound piece of art. It calls attention to loss and grief, treading in a puddle of existential...

Personally, I'm not the greatest player but I find myself drawn to the game especially among those I love. Chess is an alluring game....

These are trying times. We all know that and perhaps collectively we feel the despair of the simple liberties that have been stripped...

With movies like All the President’s Men, Network, His Girl Friday, Deadline USA, The Post, Spotlight, and Bombshell, or TV shows like...

The hype did nothing for me. In fact, it really makes me ponder and cringe about humanity’s direction sometimes. Wild animals are wild...

Given the world's current condition, my weariness returns to the man who made me a cinephile. Perhaps, its dumb luck or a coincidence or...

We all endure the unconditional forlorn of mundanity that results in some aspect of our lives. The irony in this particular write up is...

THE NIGHTINGALE is a tense, tough one. Real world-terror is horrific and Jennifer Kent has executed a no holds barred devilish nightmare...

THE COUNTESS, a French-German, historical, gothic, drama that I’m also going to classify as a horror film and quite possibly lingers in...

One late night when I was a junior in high school I was browsing the tube and came across a film, that would later take me a decade to...

** I forewarn you. I cannot say enough exciting things about this spellbinding film! ** NEAR DARK (1987) directed by Kathryn Bigelow is...

Karyn Kusama’s THE INVITATION (2015) is eerily poetic connecting its seductively almost paralyzing ambiance, to what I imagine it feels...

When I read about French, filmmaker Julia Ducournau's RAW last year, I intrinsically knew it be something I’d find fascinating to study....