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Film Daze Cinema Club #7 (May, 2023)
We are ending the month of May with Poe, ghosts, and dicks…you guessed right, it’s double feature time!
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Alisha Mughal
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veronica phillips
When The Body Doesn’t Want to Keep the Score: A Look At ‘Huesera: The Bone Woman’
A mainstream horror film searingly states that we ought to voice when we don’t want to endure all the psychic and physical pain that motherhood entails.
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Alisha Mughal
Film Peaks: The Pleasure of the Platonic in ‘RRR’
In his sweeping action epic, S.S. Rajamouli invites the viewer to find pleasure in his male protagonists’ affectionate expression of partnership, not…
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Film Daze
April 2023
‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ Review: Losing the Magic
The third installment in the ‘Magic Mike’ trilogy attempt to “elevate” the story to “serious cinema” fails to replicate any of the earlier charm and…
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veronica phillips
Film Peaks: The Daydream Nightmare of ‘Women Talking’
With 'Women Talking’, Polley has created much more than a #MeToo metaphor.
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Film Daze
Film Daze Cinema Club #6 (April, 2023)
This month's cinema club is all about dudes being dudes and movies that can be painful to watch.
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Alisha Mughal
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veronica phillips
March 2023
The Kids Will Lead the Way: Allan King’s ‘Warrendale’
In this unflinching documentary, part of the Criterion Cinema Verité collection(Criterion Channel), King’s camera observes the day-to-day life of the…
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Film Daze
‘Tár’ Review: A Conductor and Composer of Situations
‘Tár’ doesn’t perfectly manage its attempt to grasp the current cultural shift in how we deal with artists who abuse their power, but it’s sharper than…
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veronica phillips
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review: A Jumbled Slog Through the World of the Na’vi
Once we’ve settled into its beautiful world, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ feels a bit like a slog through every possible sickly sweet theme that can be…
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veronica phillips
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Review: A Mother-Daughter Conflict of Epic Proportions
Is 'EEAAO' a marker of a massive shift in cinema, or a reprieve from how much drivel we are being offered in the rest of current cinematic theatrical…
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veronica phillips
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Film Daze Cinema Club #5 (March, 2023)
This month's cinema club is all about the divine feminine and mothers under the influence.
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veronica phillips
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Alisha Mughal
February 2023
Like Raw Flesh On Stone: An Interview with ‘Murina’ Director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic and Star Gracija Filipovic
To see Filipovic and Kusijanovic together, side by side, it seems like they have known each other all their lives.
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Alisha Mughal
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