By As the booming success of Michael reminds us, biopics might be the most rigid and uncomplicated of film genres. Portray the subject as a morally-upright genius, hit a couple of big points from Wikipedia, and include lots of stuff that people love to reward the audience for their very good
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Back in the ’90s (right before I enrolled), the North Carolina School of the Arts during homecoming would have a flag football game against a frat from Wake Forest. Quite a few of the frat brothers imagined that the male ballet dancers wouldn’t be so tough on the gridiron. They
Palestine Cinema Dispatch: The Pro-Palestine Documentary Britain Doesn’t Want You To See
A few days ago, on the morning of April 24, 2026, several activists from People Against Genocide occupied the roof of a UAV Tactical Systems factory in Leicester. They damaged the roof, damaged the drones inside, and otherwise obstructed factory operations, likely causing months of delays in drone production at the
Small Town Comedy Chasing Summer Is a Love Letter to Texas
They say you can’t go home again. But what if sometimes — at least in the movies — you can? That’s basically the premise behind Chasing Summer, an indie comedy about going back where you came from to find yourself once more. This is, of course, fairly well-trod ground thematically
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“Tell me what you remember,” says a voice at the start of the new trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey. For some watching, that’s a loaded question. The Odyssey is obviously one of the most important works of Western literature, a foundational epic that has influenced centuries of myths and
