The Substance is an immediate cult classic. It’s arguably the best body horror movie of the 21st century. But also has meaningful, necessary things to say about our relationship with aging and modern ...

Welcome to our Colossus Movie Guide for The Birds. This guide contains our detailed library of content covering key aspects of the movie’s plot, ending, meaning, and more. We encourage your comments ...

To get the most out of MaXXXine you have to understand what Ti West has been doing with the X trilogy. The overriding theme is the influence cinema has on individuals (the promise of stardom) and ...

The end of I Saw the TV Glow begins following a moment of existential crisis. Owen has two options. Keep living the life he has known, or believe Maddy’s claims that he’s actually Isabel from The Pink ...

Interstellar’s primary theme has to do with logic versus emotion. The dynamic permeates almost every part of the film. For example, the school system has turned away from teaching kids to dream and ...

Eddington has so much going on that it’s easy to feel lost. Thankfully, our First Rule of Film Analysis holds true: if you compare the beginning to the end, narrative and thematic intention becomes ...

What is Transformers One about? Transformers One introduces the idea of “staying on protocol” as a challenge to viewers. It’s that message that you’re more than meets the eye. You have potential. But ...

Blink Twice joins a long line of r*pe-revenge films that started with Bergman’s The Virgin Spring and has continued through the decades with films like The Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave ...

If you want a quick explanation of A Complete Unknown, here it is. A Complete Unknown has two levels. The first is Bob Dylan’s journey into and out of the folk scene. Initially, it’s something he ...

In this section of our Colossus Movie Guide for Apocalypse Now, we look at the key shots that help us understand the film. The juxtaposition of helicopters with a simple bedroom fan in the opening ...

Many horror movies come back to trauma. Processing it, living with it, confronting it. In a Violent Nature stays with that theme. If we believe Johnny’s backstory, he was a kid who lost his mother at ...

Ryan Coogler uses the opening shot of Sinners to establish the film’s primary theme: freedom. Modern cinema has defaulted to using the very beginning of the movie as a thesis for the story’s main ...