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AMBULANCE: An Angry Auteur With Restraint (Or How Michael Bay Learns To Love People)
AMBULANCE: An Angry Auteur With Restraint (Or How Michael Bay Learns To Love People)

Whatever story Bay tackles next, we should not anticipate certain thematics because, after Ambulance, there seems to be a humanist and caring side to him.

Away from the Hype: Roar
Away from the Hype: ROAR

A breakdown of Roar, or “the most dangerous film ever made”, where half of the cast and crew suffered injuries from the film’s big cats.

The Best Edit In DON'T LOOK UP
The Best Edit In DON’T LOOK UP

Good editing or not, Corwin’s impressive, ambitious work in Don’t Look Up is at least highly expressionistic and motivated.

Why Are Hollywood's Asian Stories Scored By White Composers?
Why Are Hollywood’s Asian Stories Scored By White Composers?

The tools for articulating Asian cultures and histories are being kept out of the hands of Asian and Asian-American composers, and that needs to change.

Away from the Hype: Waterworld
Away from the Hype: Waterworld

Waterworld is not perfect, it’s not as well-crafted and clever as the Mad Max franchise it’s clearly based on, but it is a great time.

Away From the Hype: SNAKES ON A PLANE
Away From the Hype: SNAKES ON A PLANE

On this Away From the Hyper, Sean Fallon takes a look at the 2006 horror-comedy Snakes on a Plane!

The Rift Between Hungary's Cinematographer Societies
The Rift Between Hungary’s Cinematographer Societies

A look into the current state of Hungary’s filmmaking and cinematography societies and their connections to politics and institutions.

Redefining The Road Movie: QUEEN & SLIM
Redefining The Road Movie: QUEEN & SLIM

Following in the footsteps of a long line of road movies, Queen & Slim takes the genre in a new direction, adding its own original flavour.

The 10 Best Film Scores Of 2021
Staff Inquiry: Top Tens of 2021

To celebrate the end of a great cinematic year, our writers have compiled their top ten lists of the films of 2021.

The 1974 BLACK CHRISTMAS Brought Giallo To America, And Nobody Was Ready
The 1974 BLACK CHRISTMAS Brought Giallo To America, And Nobody Was Ready

With Black Christmas’ blend of sadism, camp and scantily clad women, the film finds the pulse of the American slasher.

REALITY TV ISN'T TRASH: THE EDITING OF SURVIVOR
REALITY TV ISN’T TRASH: THE EDITING OF SURVIVOR

Emily Wheeler takes a deeper look at the quality of the editing used in the popular CBS reality show, Survivor, which just finished its 41st season.

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In 2021, The World Is Back To Black And White

This year, over a dozen films, sidestepped color in favor of black and white and many are vying for major awards this season.

DUEL At 50 Spielberg's Car Chase Thriller Speeds Across Nixon-Era America
DUEL At 50: Spielberg’s Car Chase Thriller Speeds Across Nixon-Era America

A 50th Anniversary retrospective on Steven Spielberg’s first feature-length film, Duel, and its place in Nixon’s America.

Away from the Hype: THE MATRIX SEQUELS
Away from the Hype: THE MATRIX SEQUELS

For this Away from the Hype Sean Fallon takes a look at The Matrix Sequels. How do they hold up?

The Diversity Promise Of Marvel's WHAT IF...?
The Diversity Promise Of Marvel’s WHAT IF…?

While the purpose of What If? may be to prime the fanbase for multiverse madness, its secondary function is one of image and branding.