The Assistant, Kitty Green’s first fictionalized film, is a master class in subtlety and illustrates just how powerless young women are when faced with powerful, abusive people. Julia Garner plays Jane, a quiet but talented…
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After Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 film Children of Men, the Science-Fiction Fertility Thriller is a sub-genre rarely seen in cinema. But leave it to the mistress of the cinema of the body, Claire Denis to tackle…
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Retrospectives
‘Some Like It Hot’: My First Classic Comedy, 60 Years Later
by Jen Seggioby Jen SeggioMy introduction to Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot was not a conventional one. When my dad’s video store closed thanks to the Blockbuster boom, he gave a lot of the VHS tapes to my…
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Lizzie Borden comes in and out of fashion whenever feminism or unsolved murders do. While it’s not particularly feminist to bash in the heads of two defenseless people with an axe, director Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie is…
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Bohemian Rhapsody was bound to rake in the dough by attempting to tackle Freddie Mercury and Queen’s dazzling rise to superstardom. The film’s box office results thus far have proved that assumption to be correct.…
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Emily Danforth) was a revelation: a bridge for me, into a world where I felt heard and seen. I had…