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Double Feature: Manga in Chains
Apr 20

Apr 20 Double Feature: Manga in Chains

Carlo Vanstiphout
Double Features

Based on a manga? Check. Strong, silent protagonist? Check. Prisons? Check. Rage against The Man? Check. Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky and the Female Prisoner Scorpion movies complement each other perfectly as showcases of Japanese and Hong Kong cinema at the zenith of their age.

Double Feature: Girl Getters Get Got in '64
Apr 18

Apr 18 Double Feature: Girl Getters Get Got in '64

Jenna Ipcar
Double Features

In this double feature we're focusing on A Hard Day's Night and The System / Girl-Getters. Two British movies that came out in the same year and surprisingly have more in common than you'd first think.

Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?
Apr 16

Apr 16 Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?

Veronica Dolginko
Lists

Girls: some are good, some are bad, and some are just trying to figure their own shit out. An exploration of Throughbreds, Ixcanul and A Fantastic Woman.

Double Feature: It's Outta Control
Apr 11

Apr 11 Double Feature: It's Outta Control

Veronica Dolginko
Double Features

Take control and watch a double feature of The Killing of a Sacred Deer with A Serious Man. Sure to throw you into at least the most basic of existential turmoil, if not some sort of nervous breakdown. 

I Watched It So You Don't Have To: La Grande Bouffe
Apr 9

Apr 9 I Watched It So You Don't Have To: La Grande Bouffe

Jenna Ipcar
Reviews

La Grande Bouffe is a movie that drags out all of the worst qualities in humanity and society, mixes them with our most base and unpleasant bodily functions, and then wallows in them all like pigs in shit. 

Double Feature: Female Anxiety, Celebrity Edition
Mar 9

Mar 9 Double Feature: Female Anxiety, Celebrity Edition

Veronica Dolginko
Double Features

Veronica takes a look at I, Tonya and Amy in this latest double feature with a focus on celebrity female anxiety as its theme.

Repulsion at Catherine Deneuve and Roman Polanski
Mar 7

Mar 7 Repulsion at Catherine Deneuve and Roman Polanski

Jenna Ipcar
Essays

In light of Deneuve's comments on #MeToo, Jenna muses on how it is that somebody so close to Repulsion could somehow miss this point of the movie entirely.

Movies that Fear the Future: Before We Vanish, Antiviral and Mindhack
Mar 2

Mar 2 Movies that Fear the Future: Before We Vanish, Antiviral and Mindhack

Veronica Dolginko
Essays

There is a spectrum for how humans think of the future: at one end are the people who look forward to Mars colonies and widely available sex robots, and at the other end is the Unabomber. Before We Vanish, Antiviral and Mindhack #savetheworld teeter somewhere in-between completely fatalistic and blindly idealistic.

Annihilation Review: A Refraction of Mortality
Feb 28

Feb 28 Annihilation Review: A Refraction of Mortality

Jenna Ipcar
Reviews

Alex Garland's Annihilation is engaging and creepy, yet a little more on the horror-concept side than truly enlightening sci-fi to me. TL;DR I came for Stalker but I got reverse Solaris. 

Cynthia Rothrock: The Blonde Fury of Hong Kong
Feb 26

Feb 26 Cynthia Rothrock: The Blonde Fury of Hong Kong

Carlo Vanstiphout
Essays

Two-and-a-half decades before the stars of Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman had risen, there was a little girl from Delaware who, with a little perseverance and a whole lot of talent, took Hong Kong by storm.

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