Before I Fall is a 2017 American teen drama film directed by Ry Russo-Young and based on the novel of the same name by Lauren Oliver. Starring Zoey Deutch in the lead role, the film takes a provocative approach to teenage life, identity, and the effects of one’s actions. Before I Fall is the book […]
‘Night in Paradise’ is a South Korean drama film written and directed by Park Hoon-jung. The film debuted in 2020, and became available to international audiences shortly thereafter. It is a poignant, slowly unfolding narrative that intricately weaves together elements of crime and personal tragedy with deep emotional reflection. The film does not concern itself
Introduction Luckiest Girl Alive, a drama and mystery film, was directed by Mike Barker and based on the novel of the same name by Jessica Knoll. This film is Knoll’s screenplay adaptation of the novel. Starring Mila Kunis, the film intricately weaves a tale of personal change, trauma, and emotional intricacy. The film is set
Breaking Surface is a 2020 Swedish-Norwegian survival drama film directed by Joachim Hedén. It portrays what is both an emotional and a physical ordeal of two half-sisters during a diving trip in winter. They must rely on one another and on endurance and love to get through a winter diving trip crisis. Visually, the film
Introduction Die Welle (The Wave) is a German drama film which was released in 2008, by Dennis Gansel, and is based on a real-life 1967 classroom experiment in the United States. The film, while fictionalized, modernized and set in a contemporary German high school, still asks the question: Could a dictatorship ever happen again? The
The Vow The Vow is a romantic drama film released in 2012 and inspired by true events. Directed by Michael Sucsy, the movie stars Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. It describes how the bond of a married couple is tested after one of them has a tragic accident and suffers severe memory loss. The film
The Midnight Sky is a 2020 American science fiction drama film directed by George Clooney, who stars in the film as well. The movie is based on Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel Good Morning, Midnight, and the focus is on survival, the quest for human connections, and regret, on a ruined earth and vast, empty space. Clooney’s
Robert D. Siegel was the writer and director behind the American romantic drama film Cruise, which was released in 2018. The film centers around the summer of 1987 in New York, and captures the feeling of youth, and nostalgia during this time. The restlessness of growing up and the cars and music of the time
“The Revenant” is a visually stunning and emotionally powerful 2015 historical drama directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The film is inspired by the life of Hugh Glass, a 19th-century frontiersman and explorer, and is based in part on Michael Punke’s novel of the same name. Set in the early 1820s in the vast American wilderness,
Introduction Set to release in 2024, the musical biopic drama, A Complete Unknown highlights the early, formative years of the respected singer and songwriter Bob Dylan. Directed by James Mangold and co[-]written by Mangold and Jay Cocks, the film details Dylan’s growth throughout the 1960’s. One of the most talked about and controversial moments in
