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April: From Abortion to Birth

Mo Abdi -
April, directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili from Georgia, shares an astonishingly realistic image with its audience; a compact, raw, harsh, and gripping film about abortion...

Turnip Faced C-Word – Bring Them Down Review

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Freaky Tales – A Review

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Police Brutality Can Be Fun – Deva Review

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Disney’s Snow White Never Meets the Need for Storytelling

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Paging the On-Call Doctor – Medical Dramas Rising on Streaming

Cara-Lynn Branch -
Medical shows have been a mainstay of network television for decades, from soap operas like General Hospital (the longest-running scripted series in the US)...

Mid-Century Modern – A Review

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No Return – Yellowjackets Review Season 3

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Adolescence: Do You Know Who Your Children Are?

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Long Bright River – A Review

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Festivals

Festivals

Love, Anarchy, and Cinema: A Conversation with Outi Rehn of the Helsinki International Film Festival

Amir Ganjavie -
The Helsinki International Film Festival, known as Love & Anarchy, has carved out a unique space in the global film landscape, celebrating daring and unconventional storytelling....
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Championing Queer Cinema: An Interview with Bard Ydén of the Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival

Amir Ganjavie -
In this conversation, Bard Ydén, the festival director of Norway’s only queer film festival, discusses the origins of the Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival, its approach...

New York Asian Film Festival: A Conversation with President and Executive Director Samuel Jamier

Amir Ganjavie -
In this conversation, Samuel Jamier, President and Executive Director of the New York Asian Film Festival and Foundation, offers insights into the festival’s origins, its...

Hysteria; Quran Burning and Today’s Germany

Mo Abdi -
Hysteria, which was screened in the Panorama section of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, blends the world of filmmaking with the reality of...

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Trains, A Bit of Automobiles, But No Planes: A review of Sewing A Nightmare

Elias Bovard -
I watched every minute of Louise Mason’s Sewing A Nightmare. I promise you that. All 52 minutes. And I’m glad I did. Because it...
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Trauma Tryst: A review of An Advert For One Night

Elias Bovard -
What’s more intimate than telling a stranger your trauma soon after meeting them? Sexual intercourse soon after meeting them, possibly. And in the successfully...

It Takes a Village: A Review of Stoned for Christmas

Elias Bovard -
Sometimes when your family doesn’t accept you, you can go out and make yourself a new better one. Stoned for Christmas, an animated short...

New World Order: A Review of Just The Worst Time

Elias Bovard -
New York, New York: the city so nice, they named it twice. “The world is a shithole.” The phrase so bleak, they also said...

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Forgotten Gems

Forgotten Gems

The Hawks and the Sparrow, Pasolini’s most difficult signature work

Giulia Dickmans -
An almost full moon in a cloudy sky offers a static background to the most dynamic opening credits of The Hawks and the Sparrows...
Forgotten Gems

What are the Beasts in Beasts of the Southern Wild?

Chris McClure -
The most interesting interpretations of Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, those from Silpa Kovvali for the Atlantic and Kelly Candaele for the...

Revisiting 101 Dalmatians 

Cara-Lynn Branch -
With the live-action Cruella newly arrived on Disney+ via Premier Access, it’s worth looking back on 1996’s 101 Dalmatians starring Glenn Close as Cruella. Critics at the time...

Robert Altman’s Re-invention of Private Eye in The Long Goodbye

Ali Moosavi -
Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe is one of the best loved and most enduring of private eyes. Chandler’s plots can sometimes be confusing. Howard Hawks...

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Niagara Falls International Short Festival Online Screening

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The Niagara Falls International Short Festival is a seasonal online film festival dedicated to showcasing short films. With an emphasis on brevity and creativity,...
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Interview with Kim Ji-Yong, “Decision to Leave” cinematographer

Cara-Lynn Branch -
Decision to Leave is the latest film from South Korean director/writer/producer Park Chan-wook. In making this film, he worked with cinematographer Kim Ji-yong. We...

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