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GROWING UP IN A REVOLUTION: THE POWER OF PERSEPOLIS

  • April 30, 2025
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In this edition of Review Roundup, host Laura Gommans is joined by Elliot Bloom to dive into the re-release of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s searing, stylish memoir of growing up in Iran through revolution, repression, and...

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HOW DO YOU FILM THE ATOMIC BOMB?

  • April 23, 2025
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Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) returns to cinemas—a quiet revolution in filmmaking that blends love, loss, and the long shadow of human destruction. In this episode, hosts Kiriko Mechanicus and Elliot Bloom unpack why...

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IS ALEX GARLAND’S WARFARE AN ANTI-WAR MOVIE?

  • April 16, 2025
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Did audiences jump the gun on Alex Garland’s Warfare? Before it’s release, the brutally realist portrait of America’s war in Iraq was deemed just another army recruitment movie, but Hugo Emmerzael and Laura Gommans definitely...

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WHY HOLLYWOOD LOVES A COMEBACK

  • April 9, 2025
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In a moment when Hollywood is once again embracing the comeback—think Demi Moore’s return in The Substance or Pamela Anderson’s reinvention in The Last Showgirl—we turn our attention to the art of the revival. In...

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THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMMAKER IN DUTCH HISTORY W/ LUUK BOUWMAN

  • April 2, 2025
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Dutch Nazi propagandist Jan Teunissen was once one of the most powerful—and now largely forgotten—figures in Dutch cinema. Rising to prominence during World War II, he seized the opportunity to shape ideology through film, aligning...

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IS THE ROOM THE BEST WORST MOVIE EVER MADE?

  • March 19, 2025
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Hailed as the Citizen Kane of bad movies, The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003) has transcended its origins as an enigmatic vanity project to become a bona fide cult phenomenon. But how did it achieve such...

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BONG JOON-HO’S BLOODY BRILLIANCE AND THE RISE OF KOREAN NEW WAVE CINEMA

  • March 12, 2025
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When Parasite won Best Picture, it put Korean cinema in the global spotlight, but it was the result of decades of bold filmmaking. With Mickey 17 now out, it’s the perfect time to dive into...

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DO TWO ROBERT PATTINSONS MAKE BONG JOON-HO’S MICKEY 17 TWICE THE FUN?

  • March 6, 2025
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In our latest review round-up, Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 has Laura and Hugo at odds, Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths steals their hearts, and Brazilian awards darling I’m Still Here sparks a heated debate between our...

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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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