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Best Films of 2020
It has certainly been a difficult year for cinema. Most of the year’s most anticipated films have been postponed, especially the...
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Feb 11, 20216 min read
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Outside the Wire (2021): A Short Review
Outside the Wire (2021) is a Science-Fiction Action film directed by Mikael Hafstrom and starring Anthony Mackie and Damson Idris. The...
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Feb 4, 20214 min read
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Eyes Wide Shut: Sex, Infidelity and Dreams
As an at-first-glance picture perfect married couple, Bill and Alice Harford, plunge into a heated argument triggered by jealousy, Alice con
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Feb 1, 20218 min read
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Pieces of a Woman (2020): A Short Review
Pieces of a Woman (2020) is finally on Netflix after garnering some positive reviews from its TIFF debut. This anxiety-driven drama stars...
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Jan 21, 20212 min read
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20 Best Movies of the Decade
It took us one year into the new decade to look at the old decade in retrospect. And if this vantage point reveals anything, it’s that...
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Jan 10, 202115 min read
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The Hunt (2020): Movie Review
The Hunt (2020) feels like an idea someone came up with while drunk, given a Blumhouse budget and then marketed on the tide of fake...
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Jan 6, 20214 min read
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Princess Mononoke: Can we save nature?
Hayao Miyazaki is hailed for making countless mind-blowing animation films. If we had to pick one film from his gleaming repertoire to be...
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Dec 20, 20204 min read
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Hospital Playlist: New Era for Kdramas
Despite its prevailing fame in Asia since the 1960s all the way until this decade, Korean dramas don't change much. There are attempts to ma
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Nov 9, 20205 min read
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The Lighthouse (2019) and Film Interpretation
Since its release back in 2019, Robert Egger’s The Lighthouse has been endlessly dissected and analyzed. Various interpretations have...
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Nov 7, 20204 min read
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The Sociology of Parasite: Reading post-Marxist social theories in Bong Joon Ho's masterpiece
At this point, Bong Joon Ho’s masterpiece Parasite (2019) has probably been analysed to death. There are videos on the internet talking abou
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Oct 23, 20209 min read
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Murakami and Black Mirror's San Junipero: Exploring a futuristic afterlife
Murakami’s Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World takes a different approach to exploring the concept of 'afterlife'.
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Oct 8, 20206 min read
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Studio Ghibli: A Beginner's Guide
In this article, we give you a comprehensive guide on the Ghibli films you should watch if you're just getting started.
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Sep 27, 20205 min read
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Little Women: How films should explore social themes
Little Women (2019) is based on a popular novel which depicts the lives of four sisters from childhood to womanhood.
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Sep 20, 20205 min read
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Voices and Power: How the JK Rowling fiasco reveal the weakness of the internet discourse
JK Rowling’s controversy about transgenderism is emblematic of the problem with contemporary social discourse.
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Sep 17, 20206 min read
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Best female lead performances of the decade
As a continuation of our best performances of the decade rankings, we will now look at the Best Female performances of the 2010s. This...
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Sep 12, 202014 min read
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Best male lead performances of the decade
While other reviewers might have already finished their end-of-decade rankings, we are only just now getting to it. Why so late, you may...
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Sep 9, 202013 min read
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Captain Marvel & Black Panther: Social justice in blockbuster films
Here's the thing, Captain Marvel is the first lead female superhero (or heroine) to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not the first s
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Aug 28, 20207 min read
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Da 5 Bloods: Where narratives intersect
Lee often expresses his disillusionment towards America. Here, we see how the story of the African Americans intersect with the Vietnamese.
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Jul 8, 20207 min read
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All Stanley Kubrick's films ranked
(Image credit: We Got This Covered) Stanley Kubrick remains without a doubt one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema....
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Jul 8, 202010 min read
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Don't look back, Mr. Blue
The stories of BoJack Horseman and Rick Sanchez from Rick & Morty
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Jul 8, 20208 min read
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