by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Prisoners
Summary: Prisoners is a psychological thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, and Terrance Howard. The film follows the life of two families after the tragic abduction of their daughters, while giving special...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Movie Reviews, Prisoners
While we can categorically call Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners a thriller, the film’s psychological and theological depth carry it to a place that transcends genre and earn it a seat at the table with a handful of other modern classics. Our story begins with...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Prisoners
Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners has afforded us one of the most formidable antagonists in the history of modern cinema: Holly Jones. This is a bold statement, I know, so I will try and prove my point well. However, in order to set the supernatural stage for...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Insomnia
Summary: Insomnia, Christopher Nolan’s 2002 remake of the Norwegian noir bearing the same name, is a stunning character study of the sleepless sleuth, Will Dormer. Reassigned to Nightmute, Alaska, Officer Dormer strives to solve the case of a methodically...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Insomnia, Movie Reviews
Black on white. As the opening credits roll, or rather seem to be blotted upon the porcelain screen, like inkblots on a Rorschach test, we hear the first sounds of a melancholic score, rising and falling, in sync with black names upon the white screen. ...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Insomnia
In Nolan’s Insomnia, the viewer is led, step by step, into the psyche of the film’s troubled protagonist, Detective Will Dormer. Beginning with the film’s opening sequence, we get a glimpse of Dormer’s interior state, as we are shown vignettes from a dream he is...
