It’s not often that you watch a documentary that is genuinely informative and also includes a talking head drinking a Tecate. In life, it’s all about the simple pleasures. Seldom does a documentary instantly feel…
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World Cinema
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2020 was a year that seems will always be remembered as an absolute hellscape; between a tumultuous election year, a widespread pandemic, and economic pressures on a global scale, the world felt as if it…
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When a young man drops out of college to care for his shut-in mother he too finds himself increasingly insulated from the outside world, something which conflicts with his growing forays into amateur astronomy. Credits…
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Usually films filled with dogs skew towards becoming overly sentimental and saccharine, shoving dogs in the face of the viewer simply for a cheap emotional response. Dogman, the latest film from Matteo Garrone, goes in the…
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Spain is an often under-appreciated source of cinematic genius. Odds are that you know Pan’s Labyrinth, but there’s so many other amazing offers for you from the largest piece of the Iberian Peninsula. Thankfully, director Richard Keaney…
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If you read my most recent article, “Top 10 Foreign Films”, you may have noticed a glaring omission: no films from India. Obviously, this is a grievous mistake, right? After all, India has one of…
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It seems like films today are dominated by two countries: the United Kingdom and the United States. While these countries do produce exceptional cinema, we often forget the gems that lie in other nations. Today,…
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