The Frame
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OPERATION FORTUNE
When was the last time you watched a spy movie where the lead wasn’t haunted by family trauma or existential crises? Where did those thrillers go—the ones that invited you to sit back,…
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Hugh Grant and the Terror of Questioning Your Faith
Can the charming star of romantic comedies transform into the very embodiment of psychological terror? What happens when the lovable protagonist of Notting Hill invites you into his home on a stormy night, and you…
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A Place Called Notting Hill
A clumsy bookseller, a Hollywood actress, and spilled coffee… Sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it became one of cinema’s most beloved romantic comedies. We watched it and we’re telling…
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Mrs Playmen – When Female Desire Defied the Vatican
How do you sustain an erotic magazine in a country where the Catholic Church watches from the windows of your own editorial office? Where does sexual emancipation end and the objectification of the…
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The Raven
Self-Portrait of a Murderer is inspired by the film The Raven and addresses in a narrative game what the murderer might tell about his actions inspired by the stories of writer Edgar Allan…
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Edgar Wright’s The Running Man
How would you survive if your only option to save your daughter meant becoming prey for professional hunters before millions of spectators? How long would you last if every step you took was…
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The Father
Alzheimer and seeks to find in the consolation of words a place to keep memories alive through those everyday things that weave us as people. Shared Birthday Tomorrow is your birthday. Your real…
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Beauty That Devours Its Own Soul
Can a monster be beautiful if his loneliness is so devastating it pierces through the screen? Is it possible for a film’s visual perfection to become its own curse? Guillermo del Toro doesn’t…
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Real Women Have Curves
Eduardo Galeano offers us through his prose and stories mental images of real women—those who could have been, who are, and who walk toward where they want to be. Through his book Women,…
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Imperceptible Aging
Today’s story is mind-blowing and simultaneously disturbing—it doesn’t give time for pause, is consumed in no more than 5 minutes, and demands all our concentration because it’s not the texts or dialogues that…
