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IS THE MONKEY BETTER THAN LONGLEGS?

  • February 20, 2025
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In this review roundup, hosts Laura Gommans and Hugo Emmerzael dive into three films that have caught their attention. Oz Perkins’ latest offbeat horror, The Monkey, leaves them both questioning if the American director knows...

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CAN YOU STILL MAKE A GOOD MUSICAL BIOPIC?

  • February 19, 2025
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With a new wave of nostalgia-driven musical biopics—A Complete Unknown, Better Man, Maria—flooding theaters, hosts Laura Gommans and Hugo Emmerzael ask: what does it take to make a great musical biopic these days? A genre...

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What does it take to make a good musical biopics these days?by Hugo Emmerzael

  • February 13, 2025

The people that know me well, know that I am very boomer-coded. Not in the old man yelling at clouds type of way, but more in the vein of I AM OBSESSED with old timers…

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DOES A.I. IN THE BRUTALIST EVEN MATTER?

  • February 6, 2025
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In our first edition of the Review Roundup, a new biweekly cinematic dispatch, Laura Gommans and Elliot Bloom get into the latest films everyone’s talking about. From the swirling controversies surrounding Brady Corbet’s Academy-nominated The...

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ERNEST R. DICKERSON ON DO THE RIGHT THING, MALCOLM X AND JUICE

  • January 29, 2025
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Legendary filmmaker Ernest Dickerson joins host Elliot Bloom for an insightful journey through his remarkable career. From his early love of sci-fi and fascination with the practical elements of filmmaking to meeting long-time collaborator Spike...

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Why Cinema’s Vampires Refuse to Die by Laura Gommans

  • January 20, 2025

I don’t know why I start so many of my introductory monologues saying I was a horny teenager, but… to elaborate on what I’ve stated before, I was a horny GOTH teenager. Black clothes, black hair, leather…

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FROM DRACULA TO EDWARD CULLEN: THE IMMORTAL CINEMA OF BLOODSUCKERS AND NIGHTSTALKERS

  • January 20, 2025
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This year, vampires emerge from the shadows once more with Robert Eggers’ haunting reimagining of Nosferatu. But why does the vampire continue to linger in our cultural imagination? In this episode, hosts Laura Gommans and...

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JEROEN HOUBEN ON TORCH SONG (2025)

  • January 16, 2025
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Fresh off winning the Dutch Film Critics’ Choice Award at the Netherlands Film Festival, LAB111 resident filmmaker Jeroen Houben joins host Kiriko Mechanicus to discuss his bittersweet, offbeat drama Torch Song. The film tells the...

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RAOUL PECK ON ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND (2025)

  • January 14, 2025
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A fearless voice against systemic injustice, Raoul Peck has crafted a body of work that interrogates the legacies of colonialism, racism, and power with unflinching clarity. In this episode, Peck joins our producer Elliot to...

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BASEL ADRA AND YUVAL ABRAHAM ON NO OTHER LAND (2024)

  • January 9, 2025
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In a village under constant threat of displacement, where homes and schools are torn down and the land is slowly seized, how does one resist? For Basel, the camera is a weapon in the fight...

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