Category: Movie
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‘Someone Great’: Loss In The City
When long-time couple Jenny and Nate break up so Jenny can pursue her journalism career, Jenny leans on her two best friends for one last epic night in the city.
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‘Water Lilies’ and the Journey of Identity
A gentle coming of age story, Water Lilies takes its time in exploring what it’s like to be a young girl trying to make sense of her sexuality in a heteronormative world.
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Luke Skywalker, Gay Icon: Part 1
Star Wars is better if you believe that Luke Skywalker is gay. You can’t change my mind.
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The Lovebirds: It Doesn’t Soar, But It Glides
‘The Lovebirds’ is one of those movies that has a very direct appeal when it comes to its comedy. There isn’t a singular style, so much as tidbits of various ones here and there.
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Disney’s “Soul”: An Exploration Of Identity
Soul takes intangible concepts like self and personality and makes them completely palpable and simple to digest.
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“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”: A Lesson in Blues
With raw and unapologetic performances by Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman, stories about the hardships of Black musicians are weaved in with The Blues.
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“Get Out”
Jordan Peele’s film is an intelligent and unflinching piece of work, firmly focused on the African American experience.
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“Dead Poets Society”: Why Neil’s Father Stood “Before The Law”
Dead Poets Society brilliantly combines defeat and optimism, rejection and love, craziness and daring, fear and freedom.
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“Pather Panchali”: Satyajit’s Show, Sisyphus’s Saga
What is the meaning of life? For centuries, philosophers have been trying to find the answer of this ever recurring question. In 1955, a name tried to answer this. A name which would become familiar across the seas, a name whose works would be studied for decades to come, a name which would inspire the…
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How Coming To America Managed To Stay Relevant 30 Years After Its Release
While millions of American’s tune in to the Super Bowl to see which team will ultimately take home the Lombardi Trophy (the name of which I did have to look up), many movie buffs tune in for the exclusive new trailers and TV spots. While Disney released an exciting look at the new film Raya…