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Posted inEditor's Pick

The End of the Road

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 26, 2021October 19, 2022

“Living in a van represented a new, glamorous ideal, unburdened from homeownership and a steady job — unmoored, even, from the physical world itself. If owning a home was no longer possible, there was endless space on Instagram.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Youn Yuh-jung Comes to America

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 25, 2021January 25, 2023

“On the set of Minari, she was an old Korean lady.” E. Alex Jung interviews Oscar nominee Youn Yuh-jung.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Il Maestro

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 17, 2021October 19, 2022

Martin Scorsese on “content,” the films of Federico Fellini, and the art of cinema.

Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘We Told You So’: Revisiting the Bleak, Pandemic-Filled World of 12 Monkeys, 25 Years Later

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 18, 2021October 19, 2022

“Gilliam does believe that the end of society may soon be upon us. The question for him is: What shape will the new one take?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Plague of Madness

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 8, 2021October 19, 2022

Terry Gilliam’s 1995 film 12 Monkeys showed us a bleak future, one in which a virus had wiped out most of humankind. Twenty-five years on, the film’s creators revisit their visionary film.

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Wonder Women

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 8, 2020October 19, 2022

The fight for female superheroes in Hollywood.”

Posted inNonfiction

So Much More Than Enough

by Soraya Roberts May 29, 2020December 9, 2022

My favorite director, Lynn Shelton, died suddenly this month at the age of 54. Did the spirit of indie filmmaking go with her?

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Commentary

This Week in Books: A B-Movie Storytelling Moment

by Dana Snitzky April 14, 2020December 9, 2022

Give me a Bolaño novel that starts with a guy walking into a bar, and then another guy starts telling him a story, and the rest of that novel is just the second guy telling that story.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Quotes, Story

Thumbing a Ride: What I Learned from Siskel and Ebert

by Dipti S. Barot November 26, 2019January 13, 2023

Dipti S. Barot pays homage to the two irreplaceable voices who informed her love of good movies.

aladdin's magic lamp with human figures sharing stories in the background
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, History, Nonfiction, Story

Let Me Show You the World

by Iman Sultan November 25, 2019January 13, 2023

Almost everything you think you know about Aladdin is wrong.

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