The driving force behind any culture is what makes, then breaks, its artists. After they are plucked off the map and digested back onto it, a fable or prophecy will…
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TRIGGER WARNING: This essay contains references to suicide that may be triggering to some. Within the deservedly acclaimed finale of BoJack Horseman, there’s one scene in particular that encapsulates the…
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“When I flash the porch light twice that means it’s time to come home,” matriarch Olivia Crain tells her children. This parental rule imparts a precocious young Nell with a…
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film still from Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders If films—as many have pointed out before—are an approximate for dreams, then Band of Outsiders is a dream in which the figures…
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“(I’m the) DJ of my own films.” -Wong Kar-Wai Woman in Wig: Trials by Night Fortune ought to favour her, orchestrates the great divide through choked streets. This labyrinthine city…
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TRIGGER WARNING: This essay contains references to domestic violence and suicide that may be triggering to some. Do You Forgive Our Mother? It’s this line that cast the story of…
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Early on in the 1995 Bollywood film Karan Arjun, with a single streak of blood on her face, a bereaved mother tells a group of most villainous men that her…
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In the space between film and reality, there is room for glamour, and it is through this glamour that the narratives presented become immersive— enrapturing, even. Heartbreak, too, is introduced…
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No, I will not risk my life to watch Tenet in theaters, unless Christopher Nolan teleports us back to a time before COVID-19. I would rather watch films on my…
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I knew I wanted hormones. It wasn’t a question of how or why, but when. Changing your body is scary — and takes time. I could say that taking testosterone…
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Protagonist Ellie Chu is right. The Half of It is not a love story. It’s a movie built out of loving glances and hopeless yearning from afar. It doesn’t tell…
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Of all the icons that sprung from the 1990s, no one has made me feel “seen” like the titular character in the MTV cartoon series Daria. Growing up in the…
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TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains references to sexual assault and violence that may be triggering to some. In early April, my boyfriend and I were walking in the little park…
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FilmReview: Domestic Dissatisfaction and the Twenty-First Century Housewife in Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s Swallow
Warning: contains spoilers. Hunter Conrad (Girl on a Train’s Haley Bennett) is wrapped in a time warp sweater of baby-blue cashmere. For a would-be artist who favors color, the surrounding…
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