The Year So Far
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Royal Warriors: When Michelle Yeoh Was Her Best Self
As vacuous and enervating as the annual cycle of awards season pageantry can be, there’s someth...
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Making A Murderer: Black Trauma And The Media In Alice Diop's Saint Omer
"Nothing makes sense in this story.” Those words, spoken by Fabienne Kabou as she stood trial f...
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The “Latent Psychosis” Of Jimmy Stewart: The Naked Spur At 70
Few actors are more beloved than James Stewart. In rom-coms such as Vivacious Lady and The Shop...
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This Is Ourselves: Music And Memory In Aftersun
In the cathartic, climatic scene of Aftersun, the film’s past and present storylines dramatical...
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Bad Education: Tár And The Sadistic In The Artistic
In the arts, discipline is everything. Without it, you can’t reach the diligence or stamina nee...
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Feel The Film: Mark Jenkin On Enys Men
“I remember going to a 16mm film screening of David Lean's Oliver Twist in the hall of the vill...
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If These Walls Could Talk: The Stone Tape At 50
Charles Babbage is best known as the father of the modern computer, but he had other ideas, too...
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Happy Ending: How Guillermo Del Toro Reinvented The Fairytale
Fairy tales are, by their very nature, fantastical stories. Often set in far-away kingdoms fill...
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Film Reviews
Zack and Miri And The Sex Industry On The Silver Screen
Relocating from his New Jersey comfort zone to the not-entirely-dissimilar locale of snowy Pitt...
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Christmas On Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips
This is exactly what you would imagine a Flaming Lips feature film to be like. It is prepostero...
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Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed
Long story short… some years ago, precocious teenager Joan and her friend accept hospitality fr...
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Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed
W., while intermittently amusing, is not what it could or should have been. Since Oliver Stone ...
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The Passion of Bobby Sands: Hunger Reviewed
Many films are made about brave individuals taking a stand against an unshakeable authority and...
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The Short Films of David Lynch: A Film by Film Review
davidlynch.com can be a scary place late at night. Shuffling aimlessly through its dark pages a...
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Quantum Of Solace Reviewed - Is It The Worst Bond Yet?
Pierce Brosnan once described the enduring appeal of the James Bond movies thus: “It’s the wo...
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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
I sometimes wish I hadn’t done a runner from my last house. Granted, I owed the obese landlord ...
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