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Spike Lee has always been both a champion and a practitioner of independent art. Always following the beat of his own drum, he found innovative early success in films like She's Gotta Have It and Do The Right Thing. Lee's films proceeded to score Oscar nominations for masterful outings, including
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At first glance, Celine Song's Materialists bears a superficial resemblance to her Oscar-nominated directorial debut, the beautiful Past Lives. That film follows Nora (Greta Lee), who left South Korea as a child and lives as an adult in New York in a relationship with her husband Arthur (John
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The core of Mike Flanagan's latest Stephen King adaptation, The Life of Chuck, centers around the value of a life. It's a particularly poignant time to explore these sorts of questions, given the times we live in. Each day seems to bring new, fresh hells in systems so large--political, economic,
The TV landscape is filled with science fiction futures aplenty. Battlestar Galactica is a complex exploration of military and political institutions. Andor is a ground-level exhibition of anti-fascist military intrigue. Star Trek exemplifies the values of scientific exploration and follows efforts
Danny and Michael Philippou stunned audiences with their tense supernatural horror tale Talk To Me. It's a frightening exploration of grief and warning against conjuring forces beyond your control. The Philippou brothers have returned with Bring Her Back, a very different exploration of grief's
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Supermassive Games' Until Dawn became an instant horror classic for PlayStation, in part thanks to its adept atmosphere building and an innovative butterfly effect dynamic, where characters live or die based on (what seem like) the most innocuous player choices. It's a dynamic that's inherently
The Last Of Us ends season 1 in a tense place. The long journey of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) hit a major snag when Joel realizes the Fireflies can only investigate Ellie's immunity to the cordyceps virus by digging into her brain, a fatal procedure. Of course, Joel lost his own
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Like a host of legendary Hollywood figures (think James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Jackson, and Martin Scorsese) Alec Gillis got his Hollywood start thanks to the inimitable Roger Corman, whose mountain of cult and genre films launched the brightest stars in New Hollywood. Gillis worked
They say “judge not, lest ye be judged.” Those are strong words when it comes to life, especially when re-examining them through the struggles of Wile E. Coyote in the formerly cancelled film that is Coyote vs. Acme. A long in-development picture, the world almost didn’t get to see this
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia has Sitara and Töregene start to open up a formerly tight seam of brotherhood in Ep. 7 "Brothers". All to begin the storm that will shatter the Mongol Empire into warring clans. Forces within the Mongol Empire work to keep that seam closed, but they're fighting
Daemons of the Shadow Realm has the ambushers learn about becoming the ambushed in Ep. 15 "Yuru and Danji". All after some fairly serious family drama between the titular Yuru and his best friend / brother figure Danji. Fortunately, it seems that they still have some sort of bond with each other
