Review: Hard to Be a God
An “experience” film unlike any other, Hard to Be a God is meticulously made to appear loose, like a tightly wound machine playing improvised jazz guitar. Objects often fly in front of the camera....
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Chris Rock begins his newest directorial effort with a conversation between himself and Rosario Dawson, where she claims, “There isn’t always an underlying message, and sometimes a movie is just a...
View ArticleReview: Cheatin’
The art of animation has never been as varied and advanced as it is now, yet animator Bill Plympton’s new film Cheatin’ feels like a relic from the days of classic animation. Stitched together with...
View ArticleReview: Point and Shoot
In three years and across 35,000 miles, 29-year-old Baltimore native Matt Vandyke changes everything (sort of). An only child of an only child raised on conquest video games and Lawrence of Arabia,...
View ArticleBonding with Bond: Moonraker (1979)
It seems inevitable that the James Bond franchise would eventually go into space. The franchise does, after all, seem to maintain its popularity partly by following whatever trend is popular, and one...
View ArticleA Fresh Look At: Mean Girls (2004)
It is now ten years since the release of Mean Girls, a timespan that can often see the death and severe aging of films, comedies especially. However, given the critical reception of Mean Girls at its...
View ArticleAfrica in Cinema: Somalia and “Black Hawk Down”
When one thinks about Africa, it isn’t film that first springs to mind. Indeed, the first impression might be that large sections of the continent are either too poor or too unstable to support a film...
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Review: Inherent Vice
Editor’s note: As one of the most anticipated releases of the year, Inherent Vice has drawn interest from many of our writers. As such, this article will collect a stream of content on the film –...
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