There's a baseline of suffering in the structure of reality that simply can't be changed. Eliminating suffering is often an ethical benefit to society, but there will always be a residual; trying to envision reality and life without suffering would…
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When Netflix signed a deal with Rian Johnson to make two “Knives Out” sequels, it didn’t necessarily come with a time frame. The first sequel, the already critically acclaimed “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” will arrive in theaters over…
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It is difficult to tell the story of Jeremy A. Lopez’s One for All: The DJ Chris Villa Story without mentioning my own. As Chris says in the documentary, “keep it simple.” So, I won’t start with my own story…
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Editor's Note: The following article contains spoilers for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.Black Panther: Wakanda Forever drastically alters Namor’s (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) comic book origins. In Marvel Comics, Namor is born from the princess of Atlantis and an American sea captain,…
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When it comes to Indian films, there is no shortage of mythology in their stories, as we see many of them every year. Recently, we witnessed Brahmastra, a film directed by Ayan Mukerji that explored the history of sages while…
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When Lila Neugebauer was first handed the original script for “Causeway,” the acclaimed New York theater director responded instantly to its intimate, psychological portrait of a military veteran struggling to readjust to life in New Orleans after returning home from…
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Spoilers for Babylon: If you’ve seen the film, you probably found yourself overwhelmed by the pulsing montage of movies spanning more than a century at its end, some immediately identifiable, others incredibly obscure. If you immediately wished someone would make…
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James Gunn has finally unveiled his first slate of DC projects which were a mix of predictable (with Superman and Batman movies), surprising (Waller, Paradise Lost), and confusing (Creature Commandos, The Authority). But there were some notable names and characters…
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The world in which movies are made has changed drastically in the last decade. With the over-abundance of popularity in movies released on streaming services, and certain productions skipping a theatrical release, films have seen a shift in the genres…
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New kid at school Maren (Taylor Russell), has been invited to a sleepover by a few popular girls, a rite of passage she correctly recognizes as fraught with potential for catastrophe. She doesn’t totally fit in, her off-trend wardrobe and…
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Horror films have a long history with religion, using it to blend the terrors of otherworldly sin with the violent hypocrisy of religious doctrine. Christopher Smith’s “Consecration” holds many of the hallmarks from 1970’s British horror pictures. Films such as…
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The trickiest categories to predict at the Oscars are the short film categories. With the exception of the oft-nominated Pixar and Disney animated shorts, most audiences tune in to the Oscars having never heard of any of the nominees. So…
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