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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
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 6 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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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