Nicholas Anthony
Bio
Writer and nascent film-maker. I work under my Oraculum Films banner.
Stories (21/0)
The Best Films of 2017
I enjoy a great deal of film. This is known, many times over. Every year we are witness to a flood of beautiful, compelling, and challenging experiences. Film excites me in a way that no other art form does (although food offers up a mighty challenge).
By Nicholas Anthony6 years ago in Geeks
'Call Me By Your Name' Review
Call Me By Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino and adapted for the screen by James Ivory, is an achingly beautiful film. Laced with sensuality and lust, of unguarded beauty and need, it’s a story of music prodigy Elio's (Timothee Chalamet) romantic awakening when an American student, Oliver (Armie Hammer), comes to stay at the family home for the summer in sumptuous Northern Italy. It evokes such a magnetic and intense rendition of love that it can often feel overwhelming. It’s a tale of uncertainty and longing.
By Nicholas Anthony6 years ago in Geeks
Lady Bird Review
Lady Bird is a dreamer, with romantic and cultural fantasies. She’s also overly dramatic, petulant, hard to live with, ferocious, vulnerable and determined to make her way to a college on the East Coast as far away from her ‘midwest of California’ home of Sacramento in 2002. Lady Bird the film, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, is a wonderful, moving, hilarious, and timely coming-of-age story built around sometimes fiery and strained core of the relationship between a mother and daughter.
By Nicholas Anthony6 years ago in Geeks
Justice League Review
In "Lisa the Vegetarian," the Simpsons take a trip to Storytown Village where they witness one poorly created childhood story after another. When watching the wolf pitifully fail to blow the three little pig's house down, Homer utters an apt line for most of what life is these days, while everyone else has an unimpressed face, "It was good, not great."
By Nicholas Anthony6 years ago in Geeks
Mother! Review
Oh boy. If Mother! required a GIF to sum up the general reaction to it, the most obvious would be Ron Burgundy uttering the line, "boy, that escalated quickly." It’s a bold, wacky retelling of the biblical creation myth and the horrifying extremes of worship, love, desperation, and the damage that humans are capable of when left unchecked, amplified by ambivalence masked as compassion and acceptance by the one being worshipped.
By Nicholas Anthony6 years ago in Geeks
'Thor: Ragnarok' Review
Thor: Ragnarok does most things better than any Marvel film to date. A fantastically, colourfully high watermark for the assembly line series. But it’s still a Marvel film. It has the same non-existent level of stakes as the rest. The same abundance of jokes, hollow drama, dreary exposition, winning chemistry, a shrug of the shoulders third act, etc. But what it has that no other Marvel film, or most movies for that matter, is Led Zeppelin’s "Immigrant Song" (twice!). And that immediately rockets it into a stratosphere all of it own, to be showered with adoration, gifts, and all worldly pleasures as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s champion.
By Nicholas Anthony6 years ago in Geeks
A Ghost Story Review
Love has no use for time, and time can’t quite grasp love. It makes time look like a fool, to hell with rigid linear breakdown! Against the cosmos, the love one has for another can seem insignificant, despite the stubbornness of its existence and the willingness to indeed look stupid. We hold on when we shouldn’t; even death doesn’t slow it down. Although usually, it’s the still breathing, eating, and crying (loved ones that can’t let go, not the passed on, the ghosts). Perception, like time, shifts into odd angles when it comes to love.
By Nicholas Anthony7 years ago in Geeks