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 ...

One way to read Saltburn is, like Parasite, as a film focused on economic class disparities. Felix and the Catton family represent the top-end ultra-wealthy. While Oliver is the rest of us. Except I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is The Zone of Interest about? The Zone of Interest uses a family’s extreme proximity to the Auschwitz concentration camp to explore our capacity to ignore the horrors around us and go about our ...

The Silence of the Lambs is, for the most part, a pretty straightforward movie. But it does have two bits of subtext I think are pretty cool. The first has to do with time. And the second with the ...

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 ...

What is Anatomy of a Fall about? Anatomy of a Fall is about storytelling. Specifically, the relationship between reality and fiction. The film, initially, frames this as the way in which Sandra uses ...