Category: Cinema Insights and Reviews

Thoughts and reviews on contemporary and older cinema by Zena V. My film tastes range from adorable to romantic to surreal and surprising. If you’re into the psychological and existential, well hey! I am too!

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Posted in Cinema Insights and Reviews Oscars 2023

Film Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

Guillermo del Toro is one of our times most exciting directors. I say this mainly because of…

Posted in Cinema Insights and Reviews Video Games

Disney Dreamlight Rakatangled

Dear Reader, I have been unfathomably addicted to the videogame Disney Dreamlight Valley. Please let me explain….

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Film Review: The Wonder (2022)

The Wonder, a slow and creeping psychological drama, just came out on Netflix a little bit ago….

Posted in Cinema Insights and Reviews Rewatches & Rereads

Wall-E and the Disturbing Nature of Its Dystopia

I saw Wall-E today for the first time in near two decades. I wanted to watch it…

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Film Review: Detachment (2015)

This is one of those times where a movie I’ve never heard of shows up on one…

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Generational Trauma in Disney’s Moana, Frozen, Coco and Encanto

Over the last few years talk about generational, complex and developmental traumas have entered the landscape more…

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Here I Go, Complaining About Multiverse of Madness

After watching Everything Everywhere all at Once it’s hard to watch a multiverse film and feel like…

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Three in One Mini Film Reviews

I thought instead of writing one review for each of these that I would do a smaller…