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2023: A Year in Review
Thank you to all of our readers and contributors for all of your continued support. Whether you were team Barbie or team Oppenheimer, or...
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Oct 19, 20235 min read
The 32nd Heartland International Film Festival
By Oliver Webb The 32nd Heartland International Film Festival took place between 5th – 15th October in Indianapolis, Indiana. The...
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oliverjlwebb
Mar 31, 20232 min read
Industry Profiles: Gene Gauntier
Every other month we will be focusing on the unsung heroes of the film world. The individuals selected have all played a vital role in...
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oliverjlwebb
Jan 31, 20232 min read
Industry Profiles: Anne Bauchens
Every other month we will be focusing on the unsung heroes of the film world. The individuals selected have all played a vital role in...
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oliverjlwebb
Mar 29, 20224 min read
90s rock And Black Eyeshadow: The Genius of Pattinson's Batman
By Danielle Momoh I have always been unable to take the concept of Batman seriously. It was not the fact that Batman’s superpowers are...
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oliverjlwebb
Mar 1, 20223 min read
Actor Jamie Robson on The British Weird Wave
You're accredited with helping spearhead a film movement that’s been labelled 'The British Weird Wave.' Could you tell me more about it...
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oliverjlwebb
Feb 27, 20223 min read
Suspiria (1977): A fever you don't want to sweat out
By Danielle Momoh Two girls tread water in a pool, one whispering strange revelations to the other. We view them from overhead, the...
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oliverjlwebb
Jan 22, 20225 min read
The Matrix Resurrections—A Failed Blade Runner 2049?
By Evelio Zavala What made The Matrix trilogy work is why The Matrix Resurrections fails: timing. In 1999, it was the turn of a new...
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oliverjlwebb
Jan 17, 20222 min read
Shut up and deal: Billy Wilder’s 1960 classic, The Apartment
By Mae Brando The first time I came across The Apartment would’ve been during the colder month of January back in 2018. It was perfectly...
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oliverjlwebb
Dec 20, 20214 min read
Cruising: Ambiguity and Meaning
By Duran Aziz There isn’t a whole lot that’s resolved by the time the credits roll in William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980). We thought that...
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oliverjlwebb
Dec 18, 20215 min read
Love is all a matter of timing. Wong Kar-wai’s, As Tears Go By (1988) revisited
By Evelio Zavala There are very few films I can confidently say are alive and breathing when you watch them. There is another world...
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oliverjlwebb
Dec 3, 20214 min read
Dear Evan Hansen: a Ben Platt vanity project
By Kaitlyn Riggio The Dear Evan Hansen movie adaptation is a Ben Platt vanity project above all else. The musical Dear Evan Hansen has...
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oliverjlwebb
Nov 27, 20216 min read
Thanksgiving special: Hannah and Her Sisters
By Evelio Zavala In my opinion, Hannah and Her Sisters is the best Thanksgiving movie. Ever. None really come as close to Woody Allen’s...
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oliverjlwebb
Oct 28, 20214 min read
Built into the beginning: uses of sound in Cries and Whispers
By Evelio Zavala When Woody Allen was interviewed by Richard Corliss for Time shortly after Ingmar Bergman’s death in 2007, Corliss asked...
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