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The Prescience of The Truman Show
Nearly 30 years after its release, The Truman Show has only grown in relevance, as everyone has come to join Truman as products trapped in a false world.
Oliver Stevens
Oliver Stevens is a graduate of Hamilton College with honors in Cinema and Media Studies, a connoisseur of minor league baseball, and a recently converted devotee of döner kebabs.
2046 is a Haze of Memories Past, Present, and Future
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Salieri and Suffering For Great Art
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Go With the Flow: The Animated Delight of Flow (2024)
It would be a considerable understatement to say that the technological boom at the end of the 20th century which brought about the internet age has not delivered on its promises of bringing a utopia.
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Hundreds of Beavers Is the Video Game Movie We Need
Hundreds of Beavers Is the Video Game Movie We Need Hundreds of Beavers is a brilliant movie. I’ve written about it once already for this site, praising its creativity in the face of a miniscule budget and the escalating series of gags that stack on top of each other.
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In Defense of the Seinfeld Finale
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – A Jacques Demy Classic
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This Week in Film: Atropia Wins Sundance, Nolan’s Odyssey Expands, & Marvel’s Fantastic Four Trailer Drops
Film & TV News February 6, 2025 Atropia takes home the top prize at a slow Sundance. The debut feature from writer-director Hailey Gates, a comedy about a role-playing facility used for training by the U.S. military, won the festival’s Jury Prize for U.S. Dramatic Competition, while
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For All the Darkness of David Lynch’s Films, Love Won Out.
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Exploration of Identity: A Different Man (2024)
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Top stories this week in Film & TV: David Lynch, Ai, and severance finally gets a season 2
David Lynch, master of the surreal, dies at 78. One of America’s greatest directors leaves behind a legacy of perplexing, unnerving films that pushed the boundaries of narrative cinema and paved the way for others to bring their own experimentation into the mainstream. Both a painter and filmmaker, Lynch
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