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Consumptive Desire: Symbolic Eating in Guadagnino’s Bones and All
Throughout his career as a filmmaker, Luca Guadagnino has defined himself as a master—both aesthetically and diegetically—of depicting...
Finn Witham
Dec 14, 20247 min read


The Aestheticization of Whiteness on Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007 that allows members to post multimedia content. Popularized in...
Mackenzie Turner
Dec 14, 20244 min read


Anora: Reviewed
Sean Baker’s Anora is a riveting Cinderella-esque tale following the romance between Ani, a Brooklyn sex worker, and Ivan, the son of...
Lucy Kite
Dec 14, 20242 min read


The Hysterical Entertainment of Django Unchained: Realist or Ruthless?
Spectacularly entertaining and hilariously violent, Quentin Tarantino’s award-winning 2012 Western Django Unchained succeeds with flying...
Luke Park
Dec 14, 20246 min read


The Skeleton’s Skullcap: The Hermeneutical Jew in The Nightmare Before Christmas
I've read these Christmas books so many times, I know the stories and I know the rhymes I know the Christmas carols all by heart My skull...
Benny Edelman
Dec 14, 20249 min read


Peak Cinema: The 7 Best Films to Watch While Traveling in the Air
Once on board and settled in on an airplane, it is quite common for travelers to shuffle through the never ending list of films available...
Ashlynne Graham
Dec 4, 20244 min read


We’re All Girls
The past couple of years have kindled a newfound interest in Lena Dunham’s 2012 HBO TV show Girls . TikTok and Instagram have been...
Mia Ogle
Nov 19, 20243 min read


What Makes Teeny Bops So Campy?
No matter how horrible they are, we’re all guilty of hate-watching (or secretly loving) teeny bop movies. Their familiar structure is...
Quelynda Taveras
Nov 19, 20245 min read


Carnivalised: Bakhtinian Reading on Teshigaharo’s The Face of Another
Introduction Trauma, in its very essence, is a persistence of pain. And if emotion is a story and persistence the canonization of that...
Justin Gao
Oct 29, 20248 min read


Why should we care about Megalopolis?
Megalopolis managed to force its way through my cinema firewall mere minutes after its premiere at Cannes earlier this year. Videos of...
Ray Wu
Oct 29, 20243 min read


Illusions of Rebellion: Doris Wishman's Bad Girls Go to Hell and the Transient Transgressions of Sexploitation Cinema
Sexploitation films are characterized by their unflinching sensationalism of gratuitous nudity. Mainly directed by male directors such as...
Alicia Tang
Sep 18, 20247 min read


The Blue Caftan: Maryam Touzani’s Masterclass in Quiet Subversion
When the harsh overhead lights came on in my basement classroom after a screening of Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan , my eyes were both...
Cleo Helscher
Sep 18, 20243 min read


Echoes Across Time: Navigating Love, Loss, and Destiny in Past Lives
"You dream in a language I can't understand. It's like there's this whole place inside you I can't go," says Arthur to his wife, Nora, in...
Daniela Cordovez Flores
Sep 18, 20245 min read


Clapping and Recognition
You know what’s a pretty weird phenomenon? Applause after films. That’s not to say that I don’t clap when I’m amazed by a movie, but when...
Antonio Bullon Puckett
Sep 18, 20243 min read


The Regime: Political Satire Without the Politics
The 2000s marked a shift in America’s television appetite. Shows like The West Wing (often dubbed as liberal political porn), which...
Mia Ogle
Sep 18, 20243 min read


In Appreciation of Celestial Lesbianism
Looking for a campy lesbian sci-fi film to leave you stupified by your own incessant laughter? I certainly wasn’t, and yet it found me....
Cleo Helscher
Sep 13, 20242 min read


New Girls’ club
Less than a month after sweeping the January awards season and winning her first Emmy , Golden Globe , and Critics’ Choice Awards for...
Sofia Reecer
Feb 27, 20246 min read


We Should All Be 'Bottoms'
The highly anticipated 2023 release, Bottoms, pulls no punches. You are either along for the ride or kicked off. Bottoms is a certified...
Mackenzie Turner
Jan 22, 20243 min read


The Ballad of Songbirds; Snakes: The Hunger Games Unravelled
Gen Z was raised on the dystopian story. We were utterly entranced by Divergent , The Maze Runner, and of course The Hunger Games , all...
Mia Ogle
Jan 22, 20243 min read


Frances Ha
Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach conveys the anxiety of young dreamers who feel directionless while people around them follow paved paths to...
Daniela Cordovez Flores
Jan 22, 20242 min read
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