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Reviewing the Classics| The Shop Around the Corner
Ernst Lubitsch’s 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner is a familiar story for many reasons—one being that it is…
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Review| My Life as a Zucchini: Community, Adoption, and Finding Family
My Life as a Zucchini, a French stop-motion animation film based on a novel by Gilles Paris, is one of…
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Reviewing the Classics| Spellbound: Psychology, Sexism, and Reversing the Roles
Woah. I’m no stranger to director Alfred Hitchcock’s work, and I have seen Spellbound a few times before this (though…
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Review| Beauty and the Beast (2017)
When I was watching Disney’s new Beauty and the Beast, one word kept springing to mind: spectacle. The scale of…
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Reviewing the Classics| Scrooge
Charles Dickens’ story A Christmas Carol is well nigh inescapable during this time of year. Even without reading the book…
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Reviewing the Classics| Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai, directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, is a masterwork of filmmaking. Set in late-16th century feudal Japan, the…
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Review| The Little Prince
The Little Prince: a story of love, friendship, and the art of remaining a child while growing up “I took…
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Reviewing the Classics| The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
I was in college when a dear friend said, “You have to watch this crazy French movie. It’s weird, but…
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