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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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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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What is a Stereotype? by Basje Boer

  • October 3, 2024

what is a stereotype? you could say that a stereotype is a broad gesture, a thick line-drawing done with a felt-tip pen, instead of soft pencil strokes. a stereotype is a flat depiction of a person…

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How I fell in love with acting by Mike Gomez

  • May 30, 2024

There’s no getting around feeling pretentious, self-conscious, and vain with ahealthy dose of imposter syndrome when I say I’m an actor. It feels like, “HEY,LOOK AT ME!” No, really, please look at me. I act…

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What’s at stake for cinema with A.I.?

  • April 11, 2024

A year ago, over a thousand AI experts, researchers, and supporters urged for a pause in AI development to assess its capabilities and dangers. Unsurprisingly, that didn’t happen. For us film lovers, maybe we were…

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Elliot Bloom
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Why I Can’t Stop Dreaming About Nicolas Cage

  • March 19, 2024

From your A-B-Cs to Not the Bees, from the Snakeskin jacket that represents individual freedom to I Am a Prickly Pear — for over decades, Nicolas Cage has been a goldmine for countless memes, jokes…

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Hugo Emmerzael
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What’s happened to all the sex in cinema?

  • February 8, 2024

Oh how I loved being a horny teenager. And while my teenage years were mostly spent having sexual fantasies about the generally sexless Lord of the Rings-franchise, I did grow up in a time where everything around…

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Why my religion is Studio Ghibli

  • December 29, 2023

As a millennial, your cinematic religion comes to you by accident. The magic you come to believe in falls into your lap the first time you see something that you want to become a part…

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Kiriko Mechanicus
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How does The Battle Of Algiers help us make sense of Israel’s war on Palestine?

  • December 14, 2023

I’ve always believed that cinema is not just meant to be watched but to be discussed. Since starting this podcast, Celebrating Cinema, for me at least, has been a space where we try to understand…

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Elliot Bloom
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Why David Fincher might just be one of my favourite directors

  • November 1, 2023

When I can’t sleep I’ll often say to myself “You’re going to step into your cave and you’re going to find your power animal.” A line from the scene in Fight Club where Edward Norton’s…

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Tom Ooms
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