jp4d ago
From Acrimony to Mea Culpa to Duplicity, Tyler Perry’s thrillers don’t invite interpretation—they define it. Titles explain themselves. Characters announce their psychology. Law, science, and investigation become background props for emotional inevitability.
#TylerPerry #FilmAnalysis #MovieReview #Thriller #Acrimony #MeaCulpa #Duplicity #FilmTheory #Screenwriting #Cinema #FilmEssay
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/moments-over-mechanisms-the-contrabulous-fabtraption-of-professor-tyler-perry/
Moments Over Mechanisms: The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Tyler Perry

The cinematic trajectory of Tyler Perry, particularly his strategic pivot from the multi-generational “comedy” of the Madea franchise toward a distinctive brand of psychological and legal thrillers…

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jp6d ago
When cinema trades truth for aesthetic and myth, what gets lost? In Dreamland, violence becomes romance and consequence fades into fantasy. In Mary Queen of Scots, history is reshaped through visual bias and selective storytelling. Two films, opposite styles—same problem: the past and its people reduced to beautiful, convenient illusions.
#FilmCriticism #Cinema #MovieReview #Dreamland #MaryQueenOfScots #MargotRobbie #FilmTheory #Storytelling #IndieFilm #Drama #FilmEssay
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/aestheticized-transgression-and-the-revisionist-lens-a-critical-analysis-of-dreamland-and-mary-queen-of-scots/
Aestheticized Transgression and the Revisionist Lens: A Critical Analysis of Dreamland and Mary Queen of Scots

The intersection of historical revisionism and cinematic escapism often produces a narrative friction where the pursuit of aesthetic beauty or modern ideological inclusivity obscures the moral and …

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Gian GodoyMar 23
Mirror of Greed
A film portrait on Modernity/Coloniality
by Gian Godoy
Portrait of Harriet Tubman, Auburn, NY, 1868
#coloniality #colonialidad #filmessay #race #anibalquijano #waltermignolo #colonialidaddelpoder #mining #habsburg #medici #bernardooyarzun #time #flacso #inah #met #libraryofcongress #museodelprado #nationalgallery #tatebritain #v&a #harriettubman #Sojournertruth
Gian GodoyMar 23

Mirror of Greed
A film portrait on Modernity/Coloniality
by Gian Godoy

#coloniality #colonialidad #filmessay #race #anibalquijano #waltermignolo #colonialidaddelpoder #mining #habsburg #medici #bernardooyarzun #time #flacso #inah #met #libraryofcongress #museodelprado #nationalgallery #tatebritain #v&a

French Cinema & SubtitlesFeb 27

🎭 Cast: Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII, Sugar Ray Robinson, …

📝 Plot: A provocative French essay film exploring African art and its devaluation under European colonialism, juxtaposing cultural heritage with museum display and critiquing Western perception of non‑Western art in a reflective documentary short.

#LesStatuesMeurentAussi #Documentary #Art #ColonialCritique #AfricanCulture #FilmEssay #Memory #Preservation

JammoFeb 25

After a break, I’m back to writing. Adding my voice to the ever-growing chorus of podgy middle-aged men on the internet, I’ve written a TL;DR essay about John Carpenter’s The Thing: hyperrealism, viral horror, post-truth, and performed masculinity. If that’s your kind of ding…

https://fuzzyfrontiers.org/film/film-review/the-thing-i-know-im-human/

#TheThing
#JohnCarpenter
#FilmCriticism
#FilmEssay
#HorrorCinema
#BodyHorror
#PostTruth
#Hyperreal
#CultCinema

The Thing - I know I'm Human - Fuzzy Frontiers

Over forty years since its theatrical release, John Carpenter’s Antarctic elegy to paranoia and social atomisation feels less like fiction

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jpDec 19
Two Bible movies. Zero tolerance for ambiguity. Lots of imaginary Romans. A look at how modern religious cinema flattens early Christianity into something safe, tidy, and historically unrecognizable.
#FilmCriticism #ReligiousCinema #Apocalypse #FilmEssay #CriticalThinking #FilmAnalysis #Bible
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/the-tension-of-tradition-and-historiography-a-critical-analysis-of-the-apocalypse-2002-and-paul-apostle-of-christ-2018/
The Tension of Tradition and Historiography: A Critical Analysis of The Apocalypse (2002) and Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)

The cinematic representation of early Christianity frequently navigates a precarious path between hagiographic tradition and the rigorous demands of historical criticism. In the case of The Apocaly…

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jpDec 17
Nouvelle Vie treats prostitution like a habit you can quit, not a system you’re trapped in. That confusion isn’t poetic—it’s dangerous.
#NouvelleVie #FilmCriticism #SexWork #Exploitation #FilmReview #FilmEssay
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/the-pathology-of-survival-a-critical-analysis-of-richi-mbebeles-nouvelle-vie/
The Pathology of Survival: A Critical Analysis of Richi Mbebele’s Nouvelle Vie

Nouvelle Vie (2024) makes a fundamental mistake: it conflates prostitution with drug addiction. Not sex (of which there is none) but prostitution, which the film treats not as labor, not as exploit…

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jpDec 15
When movies confuse implication with proof and call it investigation, everyone loses—history, truth, and the audience. A look at how cinema turns hunches into “revelations.”
#LawrenceAfterArabia #Zodiac #FilmEssay #CriticalThinking #TrueCrime #History #Epistemology #MovieReview
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/the-epistemology-of-narrative-certainty-historical-revisionism-and-the-substitution-of-evidence-in-cinematic-docu-drama/
The Epistemology of Narrative Certainty: Historical Revisionism and the Substitution of Evidence in Cinematic Docu-Drama

The production of historical cinema and docu-dramas often presents an ethical challenge: reconciling the demands of dramatic storytelling, which requires narrative coherence and closure, with the s…

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jpNov 4
I’ve always thought that Jodie Foster is either very smart or endowed with the uncanny ability to project intelligence. The Beaver (2011) is neither of those things, but its problem is not so much that it’s dumb as that it’s lazy.
#FilmCriticism #TheBeaver #JodieFoster #MelGibson #MovieReview #PsychologicalDrama #Cinema #FilmAnalysis #MentalHealthInFilm #Satire #FilmEssay
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/the-beaver-a-study-in-cinematic-laziness/
The Beaver: A Study in Cinematic Laziness

I’ve always thought that Jodie Foster is either very smart or endowed with the uncanny ability to project intelligence. The Beaver (2011) is neither of those things, but its problem is not so much …

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