Essays

Some writing and reviews on cinema that I see throughout the year. Hopefully entertaining with an attempt to look at current cinema from different angles.

Parasite: How Metaphorical

Before I had even watched the film, I found the first images of Parasite’s marketing to be very peculiar. On the South Korean poster, is a family who would later be known to me as the Kims, consisting of our main “heroes”— a father, mother, sister, and brother…

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Miko Reyes
Jojo Rabbit: Stronger Than Hate

The Manor Theater plays arthouse movies in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The theater is considered one of the cultural staples of a city caked in steel factory soot and memories of an industry gone by.

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Miko Reyes
Doctor Sleep: Refurbishing the Carpets

In Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep, the sequel (the official sequel, according to radio ads and marketing materials) to The Shining, there are a total of three shots recycled (not to be confused with recreated) from Kubrick’s 1980’s pass at the King classic.

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Miko Reyes