4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (383+ words) Directed by Michael Grossman from a screenplay by Jade Sandberg Wallis, the film brings Lovecraft’s infamous scientist into a modern setting, following brilliant, secretive surgeon Herbert West (Morgan), whose obsession with conquering death pushes the boundaries of medicine and morality....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (523+ words) Parent: The Prestige Watchlist Focus keyphrase: family office movies Recommended title: The Godfather Is a Family-Office Movie With Worse Hours Meta (150): Family office movies: The Godfather, There Will Be Blood, Citizen Kane, The Leopard, Phantom Thread — how dynasties keep control....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (795+ words) Tess McGill has the idea. Katharine Parker has the office. That is the whole movie. The rest is hair, a ski accident, and a song that won the Oscar because the meeting could not. Mike Nichols released Working Girl at…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (481+ words) Parent: The Prestige Watchlist Focus keyphrase: status mobility movies Recommended title: The Talented Mr. Ripley Is the Darkest Networking Film Ever Made Meta (153): Status mobility movies: Ripley, Working Girl, Glengarry, Wall Street, Catch Me If You Can — how outsiders learn…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1253+ words) The useful room in The Social Network is not a Harvard suite and it is not a California house with a pool. It is a deposition table. Aaron Sorkin writes two lawsuits as sport. David Fincher shoots them as a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (961+ words) Tom Ripley does not want justice. He wants the shirts. Anthony Minghella understood the skill eat-the-rich cinema later decorated and called a hunt. Study the voice. Study the jacket. Borrow the light in Italy. Become the person the room already…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (440+ words) Parent: The Prestige Watchlist Focus keyphrase: quiet luxury movies Recommended title: Metropolitan Is the Status Movie New York Forgot to Assign Meta (154): Quiet luxury movies that teach taste as a language: The Devil Wears Prada, Metropolitan, Meyers, Budapest, Crazy Rich…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (625+ words) Parent: The Prestige Watchlist Focus keyphrase: equity deal movies Recommended title: The Social Network Still Understands Equity. Your Favorite Wealth Movie Doesn’t. Meta (152): Equity deal movies show who keeps the company. The Social Network, The Founder, Moneyball, Air, and Jerry…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1802+ words) Primary style: Wolfe status X-ray with Gladwell framing. Short magazine paragraphs. The caption does the rest. Privilege, it says, works by making itself look normal. Then it promises the opposite product: a watchlist about “the moments when the rich finally…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (414+ words) Most venues combine several types of collaboration spaces under one roof, and each serves a different working mode: The case for these spaces rests on measured outcomes, not atmosphere. According to a 2018 Deloitte study on digital collaboration, 73% of employees who…...