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“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. No feeling is final.” Neeraj Ghaywan is one of contemporary Indian cinema’s most compelling storytellers, known forhis …
Have you ever thought prosciutto was made from beef? Or pondered the ethics of dating your longtime therapist? Or choreographed and performed a highly intricate …
The creator laments the failings of his creation when the sum of its parts falls short of the promises made by its individual constituents—a fate …
Spoiler Warning: Read At Your Own Discretion Eddington (Ari Aster, 2025), potentially one of the most polarizing films of the year, offers a bleak, microscopic …
Earlier this year, I caught a re-release of Luchino Visconti’s family saga, Rocco and His Brothers (1960) at BFI Southbank. While I thoroughly enjoyed the …
Introduction This brief essay exploring the idea, rough genre or attribute of the “Christmas movie” began with an incredibly committed debate between me, two other …
Hank (Austin Butler) is an avid baseball fan, who splits his days between a job at the local bar in New York, and Yvonne (Zoë …
Death is a common theme we often encounter in films, but what about the procedure that follows a person’s death? They are usually overlooked as …
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another stands out as an absolute blockbuster of resistance against hatred. It firmly opposes the current wave of franchise-dominated, …
In a conversation about James Gunn’s Superman, one could sit and talk plenty about pacing issues and under-rendered CGI all day – take down as …