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Feb 05, 2025 Wild Gleaming Space: Charting the Beyond
Wild Gleaming Space: Charting the Beyond

This review comes to us from our On-The-Ground correspondent and Santa Barbara native, Jack O’Mahoney. Wild Gleaming Space is a documentary that is equal parts lyrical and investigative, and so beautifully shot I thought it was a narrative film until about twenty minutes in. Beginning in the Panamanian rainforest,

Opinion   -   Feb 05, 2025 Fantastic Four First Foreshadowing and Forethought, or something.
Fantastic Four First Foreshadowing and Forethought, or something.

It is well known that the most beloved and high-ticket Marvel characters and franchises are often the sight of much drama and failure. Being such valuable IP, they tend to be munched on by less-than-understanding studio executives who squeeze the life out of the thing until there isn’t much

The Fire Inside
Reviews   -   Feb 06, 2025 The Fire Inside

It is one thing to make a film about Claressa Shields’ back-to-back Olympic gold medals. It’s another thing to make a film about Flint, MI’s Golden Girl. Hiding behind a sports biopic is a deeper look at the inequity and imbalance of the sports industry, and the ways

by Umnia El-Neil
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Reviews   -   Feb 06, 2025 The Fire Inside
The Fire Inside

It is one thing to make a film about Claressa Shields’ back-to-back Olympic gold medals. It’s another thing to make a film about Flint, MI’s Golden Girl. Hiding behind a sports biopic is a deeper look at the inequity and imbalance of the sports industry, and the ways

by Umnia El-Neil
Feb 05, 2025 Wild Gleaming Space: Charting the Beyond
Wild Gleaming Space: Charting the Beyond

This review comes to us from our On-The-Ground correspondent and Santa Barbara native, Jack O’Mahoney. Wild Gleaming Space is a documentary that is equal parts lyrical and investigative, and so beautifully shot I thought it was a narrative film until about twenty minutes in. Beginning in the Panamanian rainforest,

by Jack O'Mahoney
Opinion   -   Feb 05, 2025 Fantastic Four First Foreshadowing and Forethought, or something.
Fantastic Four First Foreshadowing and Forethought, or something.

It is well known that the most beloved and high-ticket Marvel characters and franchises are often the sight of much drama and failure. Being such valuable IP, they tend to be munched on by less-than-understanding studio executives who squeeze the life out of the thing until there isn’t much

by Umnia El-Neil
Feb 04, 2025 Her Name Was Moviola: Time moves at speed
Her Name Was Moviola: Time moves at speed

I have told everyone i’ve ever met who operated in the Film age how much I do not envy them one bit. I am a kid who knows how to respect my elders - and the work that went in to making a movie back in the day is

by Umnia El-Neil
Dec 29, 2024 Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Challengers’
Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Challengers’

Luca and Justin gave us the most iconic Ambitious Horny Queers in cinema history this year. Here’s three films to keep the vibes going. A Bigger Splash Luca’s earlier work, a little straighter here than Challengers, but filled with horny ambitious people, for sure. A ton of drama,

by Umnia El-Neil
Watchlists   -   Dec 28, 2024 Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Babygirl’.
Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Babygirl’.

Halina gave us a 2024 version of a 90’s erotic thriller unlike anything we could have hoped for, and here’s to way more of that in the New Year. In the meantime - here’s some films that harmonise with ‘Babygirl’. Nightbitch A feral look at womanhood, motherhood,

by Umnia El-Neil
Dec 27, 2024 Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Anora’
Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Anora’

Anora made us soar before it made us cry, and left us feeling alive. Here are three films that can help you recapture the magic. We Live in Time Whirlwind romance, with a bittersweet ending - and a woman empowered to make the choices that she wants for her own

by Umnia El-Neil
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