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January is always an exciting time for film fans. Not necessarily because of what theatres might currently be offering (shoutout Dumpuary), but because there’s a whole year of films ahead, and we haven’t yet been disillusioned by weeks of cinematic drought. So, I thought it would be nice to revel in this anticipatory period for a little while and outline some of the films that I’m most looking for

The Year to Come: My 12 Most Anticipated Titles

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During Awards Season, cinemas can get a bit stuffy. Gone are the popcorn thrills of the summer and the unsung heroes of spring. In the dead of winter, all the worthwhile movies are either three hours long, artsy as hell, or densely impenetrable. The Secret Agent is all three of these things. That may scare some North Americans away from this film, but I'm here to say that you don't need a history

The Secret Agent Is Calling

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If you have read enough of my articles now, perhaps you may have picked up on the fact that I don’t mind a little romance… little being an understatement. As much of a movie consumer as I am, being in a friend group of engineers in undergrad and having done a master’s degree in business, I am often seen as the movie guy. I can even remember being at a party once in undergrad and the host’s roommat

Before Sunset was the film I had been looking for my entire life.

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The internet really pisses me off sometimes. Watching season two of The Last of Us week by week has definitely been an experience. I've never played the video games that the show is based on, so everything that happened in the first three episodes has been a complete surprise. I would suggest that you keep it that way if you can. There will be spoilers here, but not just yet. I have some stuff I n

You're Missing the Point of The Last of Us

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Adolescence is a brilliant display of the dangers of this bizarre wave of gender ideology that is swarming the internet. The Red Pill. This article will be a praise to the series, sure, but also a slight critique, since as a teacher I have seen how this mentality is affecting young people (specially men) and how dangerous this can be. The series opens with an operative breaking into a house, a sce

A Warning To All Parents

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As another fantastic season of Mike White's The White Lotus (his third) comes to a blistering close-- I'm once again reminded of a particularly niche-in-specificity-- cinematic-subset-genre that I often find myself largely hankering for, drawing towards and returning back to. That of which I like to call-- "Beautiful People Being Utterly Miserable, While Totally Trapped In Paradise, & Comically St

Beautiful People-- Comedically Suffering-- Karmically-Caused-- For "Two Weeks-- In Bruges-- Wichu?"

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I have a purpose. If you think that it's some kind of blessing, it's not. It means I have an obligation to see a very specific thing through. - Marty Mauser In 2018, Alex Honnold climbed his way to fame with his documentary, Free Solo. This documentary won multiple awards and bellayed the rock-climbing scene into the mainstream. That was a strange, fleeting year. I still remember how quickly rock-

Is Alex Honnold Marty Supreme?

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Back in 2013, I was pursuing a master’s degree at an Ivy League school in the U.S. Northeast. My major was in the humanities, a field notoriously labeled “unemployable right after graduation”, and to make things worse, I faced the “nightmare difficulty combo”: non-STEM major, no green card, and being a woman. As expected, my summer internship hunt that year was a total disaster. Unlike STEM studen

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When reflecting on why my ex-girlfriend and I broke up, I realize that our differing attitudes toward The Cove—a documentary about environmentalism and human behavior—might have offered a glimpse into our deeper issues. First, let me say this: The Cove is a powerful documentary and I love it. I deeply admire the courage of its creators. But I feel that the film relies a bit too heavily on emotiona

She Loved The Cove, I Reconsidered Us

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We all have that guilty pleasure in our cinematic tastes, that one title we’d rather not admit to in front of discerning cinephile friends. For me, that guilty pleasure is What Women Want. Yes, the 2000 romantic comedy directed by Nancy Meyers, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. And before anyone judges me, let me explain how a man raised on explosions, car chases, and epic one-liners from Lethal

What Women Want: My Guilty Pleasure Film

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Reflecting on my 2024 movie-going experience, I have discovered a fascinating connection between two new films. One is Foreign Tongue(original: Langue Étrangère), the latest work by French filmmaker Claire Burger, a French-German co-production that was selected for the Berlinale Competition this year. The other is Happyend, the impressive narrative debut feature by Japanese-American director Neo S

Smells like GenZ spirits: Tales of Youth in "Foreign Tongue" and "Happyend"