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What is Film Noir, a genre, style or something else?

  • December 7, 2022

My dad has this rotating bookcase-rack filled to the brim with pocket editions of these cheap dimestore novels you could buy in gas stations across post-war America. I’d browse through them and notice the pulpy…

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Elliot Bloom
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What makes Tilda Swinton so unique?

  • July 7, 2022

Somewhere in my early high school years my classmates and I were instructed by our French teacher to read Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry’s sweet little novella Le Petit Prince. For those unfamiliar to the book: the…

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Tom Ooms
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What does Cronenberg’s universe reveal about our bodies and the visceral experience of technology?

  • June 4, 2022

Lately I’ve been experiencing some particular pains in my right index finger, which might be a not so subtle hint that I’ve been using my smartphone a bit too much… It’s also an indication that…

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Hugo Emmerzael
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How does PTA create flawed male characters I once so easily fell for?

  • February 18, 2022

One event that many of us film fanatics were especially excited about this winter, was the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s ninth feature film, Licorice Pizza. Paul Thomas Anderson, who’s such a 21st century icon…

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Kiriko Mechanicus
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What are transcendental films?

  • December 30, 2021

I think it’s a thing that we all have in common here, this insisten urge to plant yourself in the film theatre, get engulfed by a tremendous film and seemingly levitate out of your seat,…

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Hugo Emmerzael
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How did I come to love Japanese cinema?

  • September 23, 2021

In the last year of elementary school, me and some of my friends got very much obsessed with watching horror movies. Despite our young age, the goal was always to watch the scariest thing we…

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Hugo Emmerzael
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The history of the summer blockbuster

  • September 8, 2021

For over 40 years, movie fans have eagerly awaited the arrival of the summer season, the time when some of Hollywood’s most vibrant and imaginative popular films emerge to battle out who will amass the…

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Tom Ooms
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Why is a tomato the essence of cinema?

  • July 14, 2021

Throughout my life, I have experienced passionate feelings towards the tomato. The tomato is a special fruit that may seem simple at a first glance, but as you think of her more, she turns out…

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Kiriko Mechanicus
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How can female desire reorientate the cinematic gaze?

  • June 17, 2021

In the darkness of a movie theatre we can pretend to be all alone with the bright figures on the screen. These people might seem ordinary, dressed in ordinary clothes. Yet they are not ordinary….

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Why are our cinema crushes so white?

  • June 3, 2021

I fall in love quite easily. When I see someone whom I find beautiful, a glimpse becomes a stare, a stare turns into an attraction, the attraction becomes a fascination, the fascination is then an…

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