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May 23, 2024 · by Evan Miller

Ten Years Later the X-Men Still Need Redemption

A 10th Anniversary Retrospective on X-Men: Days of Future Past X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) is the movie that turned me into an X-Me...

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April 17, 2024

‘The Night of the Hunter,’ Nearly 70 Years Later

The Night of the Hunter has stood the test of time ever since its release in 1955. While it was considered a box office failure at the time —...

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April 14, 2024 · by Anjani Chadha

Sadie Benning: A Retrospective Look at Works of Feminist Self-Portraiture

At age 17, I began recording videos on my malfunctioning Acer laptop's webcam. I was inspired by YouTube self-talk videos where YouTubers wou...

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April 12, 2024 · by Neha Jha

Redefined Chick-flicks: Beyond Men and Romance

Chick-flicks have always been treated as an inferior ‘category.’ A clear ‘demarcation’ of sorts for the male and female sexes, action movies ...

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March 27, 2024

From 'Mean Girls' to 'Wicked:' Are Musicals Back?

With the success of Mean Girls, is 2024 finally the year of the musical with Joker 2 and Wicked: Part 1?

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March 5, 2024 · by Sara Ciplickas

70 Years After The Black Lagoon: Average Story with Artistic Excellence 

The last film in Universal’s famous “Monster Movie” portfolio and notably one of the first films to feature a monster designed by a woman, Mi...

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February 14, 2024 · by Sara Ciplickas

Streaming Services Might Be Hurting Women’s Movements - What Do We Do?

“Streamers are all run by accountants. They’re not creative people anymore.” In my recent interview with Camille Hardman and Gary Lane, th...

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February 14, 2024

Barbie’s Signature Win Might Not be Best Picture- And That’s Okay

At the midpoint of awards season, big hitters have come and gone, and it seems like a new supreme rises every week. That being said, Barbie (...

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February 1, 2024

Why You Should Give Slow Cinema a Chance

Within the medium of cinema - where much of its modern work has become so commercialized and bombarded with stimuli, always having to be quic...

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November 13, 2023 · by Anjani Chadha

Mumblecore Must Return: Revisiting the Genre

Featuring 'Hannah Takes the Stairs' & 'Nights and Weekends' If there is something that I particularly found peculiar about contemporar...

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November 9, 2023 · by Anjani Chadha

Decoding Symbolism in "Bicycle Thieves"

Film is a visual medium. Some say great movies should be fine without dialogues to convey the story, and visual imagery should be enough. Whe...

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October 24, 2023 · by Evan Miller

Martin Scorsese’s Final Act: Coming to Terms With the Mortality of an Immortal Artist

Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro posted a widely shared tweet in October 2022 that resurfaced online as Killers of the Flowe...

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