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Last Night In Soho: Edgar Wright’s “Golden Age Thinking”

Warning: Spoilers of the films Last Night in Soho (2021) and Midnight in Paris (2011) Have you ever felt nostalgia for a time you never lived through? In the 2011 Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson plays Gil Pender, a writer infatuated with the 1920s, helplessly nostalgic to breathe the Parisian air that […]

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Chella Man and “The Beauty of Being Deaf”

In only three minutes Chella Man delivers the versatility and the beauty of being deaf. He invites you to immerse yourself into his perspective, where he discerns his obligation to advocate for himself and his fellow queer and disabled people through his short film “The Beauty of Being Deaf.” It was completely filmed underwater where […]

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Titane: a surrealist automobile fever dream about… love?

Authors note: Spoilers ahead! After over a year of theater closure, I wanted nothing but to be blown away by a movie. I longed to leave a theater speechless, tranced, sick and changed forever. Titane fulfilled this wish in the best way possible. In short, Titane is about a killer who is impregnated by a […]

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In the Mood for Love: Frames within Frames

Everyone lives within their own reality, their own frame. Sometimes that frame becomes a fantasy. Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love is an exploration of what happens when that frame, that fantasy is perverse. The film takes place in an overcrowded 1960’s Hong Kong. It tells the story of Mr. Chau and Mrs. Chan […]

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Joker Movie Review

Every young child has a favorite superhero. For some children, it was Spider-Man, for others it was Superman, and for some, it was simply a close family member or friend. Mine wasn’t that deep, for I have always been a huge fan of Batman. When I was 5 years old, I saw the release of […]

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Shazam Movie Review

“Shazam” is the first DC movie in a long time that is pure and simple fun. After an onslaught of dark, brooding and completely misguided failures, DC has finally scaled it back and made just a light-hearted, entertaining superhero romp. The story follows Billy Batson, a young orphaned boy who gains superhuman abilities when he […]

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Movie Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Nominated for three Oscars this season, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is another quirky and offbeat film from acclaimed directors Joel and Ethan Coen. The film is broken up into six completely unrelated segments, each set in the old west and each with its own set of characters. The danger of making anthology style films […]

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Halloween Movie Review

In a world in which ten Halloween movies exist, along came the third reboot in this convoluted series – the third one simply stylized as Halloween. The best way to make a Halloween movie in 2018 is to just wipe the slate clean and make this new film a direct sequel to the original John […]

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First Man Movie Review

First Man is a unique take on the story of famed astronaut Neil Armstrong. Director Damien Chazelle decided to make a film concerning the personal life of Armstrong, played by Ryan Gosling, instead of focusing primarily on the Apollo 11 mission. Because of this approach, some audience members will find First Man a tedious or […]