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THE DONUT KING, Alice Gu‘s feature-length directorial debut, is one of the most unexpectedly timely films of the year. Scheduled to premiere at SXSW, the
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When I first looked up what STRAY DOLLS was about, there wasn’t much to go on beyond “a petty crime spirals out of control.” That
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What if we solved climate change with reintroducing the Woolly Mammoth? WE ARE AS GODS is a lofi forest hike into Stewart Brand, the creator
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In a world of these large-scope adult problems, it’s easy to forget that children occupy that same world. Every challenge and anxiety that adults stare
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STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, from director J.J. Abrams (The Force Awakens) and Lucasfilm, is the final conclusion to the epic Skywalker saga. The
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Recently, I was asked to review a film I knew nothing about called BANANA SPLIT. I dug the name so I thought, “Why not?”. Once
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If you’ve always wanted to live in the moment of a WWI soldier in the front line, in the trenches, running through a field that’s
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Stories of injustice and prejudice of the legal system are not anything new, but there’s always something cruel that hasn’t been heard. While some might
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Richard Jewell is like one of those Disneyland security guards who takes 20 minutes, checking every crevice of your bag for contraband, as the line
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Right and wrong. It’s a binary. It feels obvious. There is what’s right and there is what’s wrong. But who decides? Who creates that definition?