The musical group, R.E.M.’s most popular song is arguably “Losing My Religion.” The first two lines of the lyrics are, “Life, it’s bigger; I...

Villeneuve’s film, Enemy (2013), is ostensibly about two men who look alike (they are played by the same actor). Jake Gyllenhaal plays both...

As if the macabre specter of a ghost, albeit in a white sheet with two black eye-holes, were not enough for a spooky film, David Lowery ende...

In 2025, when the film, Enzo , was released, Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine was still in progress before being overshadowed in the med...

Not every film has an implicit Thoreau signature reflective of the nineteenth-century Romantic turn from the age of Reason. Not every film b...

A sadist is a person who feels pleasure in inflicting emotional and physical pain on another person. For the sadistic personality, the emoti...

Films in which philosophy of mind is salient may, like films in which metaphysics is reconfigured, run the risk of not being understood. The...

In line with the films, The Sixth Sense (1999) and The Others (2001), Passengers (2008) centers on the (hypothetical) question of whether...

With utility and consequences valued so much in Western society at least as of 2012, when the film, Flight , was released, the story-world o...

The uniqueness of the film, From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza (2024), goes well beyond it being a documentary that includes an animated s...

The medium of film has great potential in playing with ontology, the branch of philosophy that asks (and tries to answer) the fundamental qu...

In handling social ethics, especially if the topic is controversial, film-makers must decide, whether consciously or not, whether to advocat...

Film is an excellent medium for displaying and wrestling with practical philosophy, which includes ethics, political theory, and philosophy ...

Sequel to Avatar (2009), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) contains many parallels with the original film—perhaps too many. The most outlandis...

Jean-Luc Godard’s film, Breathless (1960), is according to many film scholars difficult to classify in terms of genre. Relative to uncoverin...

On the surface,  Milton's Secret  (2016) is a story about a financially-stressed family getting a visit from grandpa, who brings someth...

What does it mean to understand something? Put another way, what counts as understanding? The film, The Imitation Game (2014), touches on t...