Philosophy in Film

For a very brief moment in time, I thought I might enjoy A Murder Between Friends. It was clearly terrible, but there was something amusing about how little effort it put into concealing that fact. Joan Collins was there. Candles were burning everywhere. A skeleton in armor was considered a normal prop to have in a mansion’s living area. Perhaps this would be one of ...

I was skeptical of Shell almost immediately. An actress whose career is slipping away discovers a treatment that promises to restore her youth and professional prospects. I could already see the warnings about beauty standards forming from the horrific opening sequence. What I didn’t anticipate was how much of my entertainment would come from watching the film strugg...

In Kane Parsons’ Backrooms (2026), getting lost and refusing to leave gradually become difficult to distinguish. Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a furniture store owner whose marriage and professional ambitions have collapsed, discovers an apparently endless dimension behind a wall in the basement of his store. Its corridors initially terrify him. Yet the same space eventu...

Spoilers for the ending of The Death of Robin Hood and The Uprising follow.

I was ready for The Death of Robin Hood to have a completely new perspective on the legend. After The Uprising u...

In Interstellar (2014), Cooper leaves his children in order to help save them. The apparent clarity of that sentence conceals the film’s central moral difficulty. He cannot protect Murph and Tom from a dying Earth by remaining a farmer indefinitely, but he also cannot remain their father in any ordinary sense while travelling through a wormhole. The mission offers a ...