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Quo Vadis was once one of the most popular novels in the world. It sold hundreds of thousands of copies, was translated into dozens of languages, inspired multiple film adaptations, and helped earn its author, Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Nobel Prize in Literature. So why have so few people heard of it today? And more importantly,…
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The 2021 musical film, which first debuted off-Broadway in 2019, gave Peter Dinklage center stage as the title character. He reprises his role as Cyrano in the film directed by Joe Wright and is the film’s sole redeeming factor.
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In the spotlight of the courtroom, Johnny Depp begins to mirror the misunderstood, complex “good bad guys” he so often plays—flawed, charming, wounded, and quietly devoted. This sharp reflection explores how fiction and reality may not be so far apart.
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All I knew walking into The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) was that it starred Nicholas Cage as Nicholas Cage. And that was enough.
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The Oscar nominated film, “Being the Ricardos” was a sad Droste effect of a nuanced woman. It’s nothing to write home about aside from a few key performances.
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“Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed” is now streaming on Discovery+. But the thing is…most of us have already seen it.
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The Adam Project (2022) is a regurgitation of better films that came before it, but I didn’t hate it.
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Ennio Morricone proves that music is everything in a western.
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Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch (2021) is typical of the filmmaker and a tour de force in visual art, but what about story?
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The Batman (2022) signals a return to the graphic, emotive appeal of the comic book super hero, but with a 90s grunge twist. Emo isn’t always emotive Far removed from Christopher Nolan’s distinctly dichotomous characterization of the Caped Crusader, background stories with unbelievable (literally) if not beguiling wonder, The Batman (2022) does not glitter, does not shine. Every…
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Through one unforgettable meal, Nicholas Cage taps into memory, grief, childhood, and the raw emotional power of food in Pig (2021).
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Film Review In considering the involvement of the Eagles, one has to first unearth the origins of Middle Earth and all the stories that have branched from it. There, we learn that LotR is rooted in the fairy-story, a genre of literature Tolkien sought to legitimize for adults in his 1947 essay “On Fairy-Stories” and throughout his career. The fairy-story,…
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