Reeves’ take on Batman doesn’t show a hero behind the mask. Reeves shows a person behind the mask, which is what makes The Batman such a fascinating interpretation of the age-old character.

While historically most sci-fi media has focused on electronic synthesizer sounds (think: blasters in Star Wars, robotic sounds in Terminator, etc.), the goal of Dune, and of fake documentary realism, is to immerse the viewer in realistic visual and auditory experience and therefore launch them into the story and world.

While Scott’s science-fiction films are vastly different from one another through their subgenres and visual design, their uniting factor—and thus, Scott’s stylistic unifier—is their emphasis on humanity.

In Better Days, director Derek Tsang situates [the theme of loss of innocence] within the context of school bullying, at once telling the story of a young girl’s journey to adulthood and critiquing the broader societal factors that make her path particularly painful.

Although asexual representation is sparse in the media as a whole, BoJack Horseman has a number of canon asexual characters, all of which unfortunately misconstrue the average viewer’s understanding of asexuality.

Ultimately, the film promotes a feminist story through the eyes of both a male protagonist and a male filmmaker in writer/director Noah Baumbach; rather than using it for its typical voyeuristic form, Marriage Story uses the male gaze in order to attack the world view it represents.

While The Harder They Fall and Red Notice were both distributed in the same manner - straight to Netflix - their viewership status had very different outcomes. This essay will examine if differences in narrative, aesthetic, and comedy are the reason for the films’ dissimilar success in Netflix viewership or if instead the viewership success was a result of Netflix’s distribution strategy and platform building itself.

Miyazaki’s design of Kaonashi’s body changes along with the complex colors and overwhelming props in the bathhouse scene contrasts with the mild color tone and moving background in the train scene. The modification of these visual design elements illustrates the turmoil but eventual balance and peace Chihiro experiences in the new environment.

Drive My Car is certainly an eccentric film especially compared to other star-studded Oscar nominees that offered mind-blowing cinematography or a Beyonce soundtrack. Drive My Car is merely — as a friend of mine put it — people talking with each other in a car for three hours. Yet, the beauty of this piece lies in all these “talks” — after all, film is a form of audio-visual storytelling.

In aligning flesh and metal, Ducournau opens up new ways to think about human identity in ways that elide gender entirely. The assemblages of man and machine in Titane assist in revealing to those still enamored with gender’s categorical power how stunningly fluid human embodiment truly is.