Escape From New York- Movie Review

I've been trying to write movie reviews for the better part of a decade. How is it that I never watched Escape From New York?  All that really matters though, is that I watched it yesterday and found that it lived up to its 1980s campy hype. In a near-future with (naturally) a dystopian feeling…

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A Woman Under the Influence- Movie Review

“Be yourself,” so says the husband to the wife. Said husband is Nick (Peter Falk), and he is losing his patience with his nerve-ridden wife Mabel (played by Gena Rowlands in a career-defining role). And whether Nick is aware of it or not, what started as social awkwardness laced with some inappropriate comments for Mabel…

Super Dark Times- Movie Review

If I were to just see the poster of teenage boys on bicycles and hear the title of Super Dark Times, I would likely write it off just as quickly, thinking it to be nothing more than a trite Stranger Things wannabe, catering to our nostalgia of your childhoods and of a different decade (in…

Frenetic Nostalgic Angst in OPN’s “Garden of Delete.”

In my experience, many of my peers, all in the tail-end of the millennial generation, have a special appreciation for the shining synth and electronic basis of various film scores. The likes of films such as Drive and It Follows are often more renowned for their soundtracks and original scores more so than their direction…

A Slight Expansion- Moving Forward.

"Articles on Cinema and Art," so reads the tagline of Unearthing Cinema. While I most definitely began this site in an attempt to showcase film reviews, anyone reading regularly would likely notice a change in some of the content. For I had most definitely grown tired of simply writing standard reviews. I have, in recent…

The Suicide Squad- Movie Review

Not falling for that shit again, so I had thought when I heard Warner Bros. were making another Suicide Squad movie.  It was 2016 and my love of directorial autonomy and indie films did not in the bit diminish my love of the big-budget hero-franchises that dominated both then and now. I didn’t think Batman…

Annette- Movie Review

Musical films are few-and-far-between these days. Even more so are the ones worth watching. And many of the popular ones that emerge cause divisive strife between critics and audiences. Whether or not you prefer Les Miserables to La La Land, I am relatively certain nothing in the world of cinematic song-and-dance will ever be as…

Beast- Movie Review

The idea of being purely and wholly civilized is sheer myth. We’re all just varying degrees of monstrosity, and finding our people and partners is about finding those with just the right concoction of damage and malintent to match your own. In a time of distress and utter confusion in my personal life, I return…

On The Academy Awards

When I first began taking an active interest in cinema, I was 17 years old. My big exposures to the medium were the likes of Marvel films, Tarantino hits, and a handful of horror classics. I viewed the term “arthouse” as an ugly word (which it admittedly sometimes still is), and believed movies were there…

Sunset Boulevard- Revisiting a Gothic Hollywood Tale

Now that the world is slightly more intact, I figured it was time to coerce my girlfriend into seeing an old classic with me. We’d been together nine months and were yet to go to a movie theater together, which as one may imagine, is incredibly rare for me. The film was Sunset Boulevard, playing…