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Clement Tyler Obropta explores whether or not Scooby-Doo promotes racist messaging, and how it uses xenophobic thinking to power a praxis of politics for propelling the narrative.
In years past, I recommended great horror movies from around the world. Find part one…
Kairo’s ghosts aren’t unearthly terrors, but rather memories of people lost, without names or faces, silently preparing themselves for an eternity of death.
The Horror of Dracula is one of the greatest horror films of all time. Or the last seven minutes are, at any rate.
As we move into November, Disney+ and Apple TV+ are hounds baying at the door to our wallets. But how much potential do they really have to disrupt this streaming gold rush?
It’s possible that the great Pauline Kael might have liked Joker – Chris Cassingham compares it to another controversially violent film, Bonnie & Clyde.
Porco Rosso is a film beaming with silliness and warmth, while also being tied and grounded in a particular human timeframe like very few Miyazaki movies can boast to have.
Film Festivals bring to audiences films that are powerful and necessary – so why are they all so exclusive?
When FX announced that they were moving forward with a television adaptation of the 1996…
Jack Godwin takes a look at the portrayal of mental illness in anime film The End of Evangelion.
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha perfectly represents the complexities of your 20s. Read why the film is such an accurate portrait.
Find whatever long-forgotten, critically-panned even, piece of your childhood that made you who you are today. Find that movie.Find your Happy Feet.
It is in this moment of burning worlds and a fading hope in humanity that cinema offers its hand. When the most empathetic of mediums loses its patience, it may be time to watch and listen.
On its ten-year anniversary, The Coen Brother’s A Serious Man should serve as a cautionary tale for our world today. Read to find out more.
The Neglected Politicism of Yasujiro Ozu’s TOKYO STORY
Released just one year after the end of the American occupation of Japan, Tokyo Story obliquely reflects on the changes that came over the country.