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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
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is a franchise revival that feels like it understands what made the original games so much fun. The gameplay is fast, frantic, and often delightfully violent, while the game throws a surprisingly large number of systems and mechanics at you. Thankfully, most of them feel
In 1977, a series of disability rights protests took place in the United States to protest the government’s failure to sign legislation that banned discrimination against people with disabilities. This protest, which continues to be the longest sit-in at a government office, was masterminded by
The 2026 reboot of Magic Knight Rayearth shows us that friendship is quite powerful in the magic department in Ep. 4 "Our Battle". It's a lesson from My Little Pony, but it's quite applicable to this anime too. Our trio of heroines will need that power, since this is their bloodiest battle to date.
