Hong Sang-soo's Hat Trick
In The Novelist's Film, Hong explores the meaningful things people share and inspire by virtue of simply engaging with one another.

The aggravatingly amiable star of "Full House," "America's Funniest Home Videos"
In The Novelist's Film, Hong explores the meaningful things people share and inspire by virtue of simply engaging with one another.
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my readings will reveal, they could be interpreted as transgender stories.
Amsterdam is a confusing movie with a meandering plot amidst a beautiful rendering of 1930s New York
GOAT (2026) opens to the chanting of a crowd: "Roots run deep!" The rest of the film goes on to echo that sentiment, offering gorgeous animation and a heartfelt story along the way.
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.
The film seems like an extreme interpretation of the conspiracy theorists that exist in real life. And then, there’s the twist.