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National Anthem

National Anthem

In 2020, Luke Gilford, a photographer by profession, issued a book throat National Anthem that describes the queer population within the set of International Gay Rodeo Association. The photos are mesmerizing and gorgeous. Born and raised in the Southwest, Gilford was fond of rodeos since childhood. But the culture itself–masculine, often suppressive of gayness, did […]

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Eno

Eno

Brian Eno is one such artist who has pioneered what some would designate as “generative art.” It was in the 1970s when he embarked on it as an art rock star with the band Roxy Music. Though he let out many a skronky sound with those fellas in the early days of machines, as he

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Bagman

Bagman

Even though it has a similar title, “Bagman” is not the film version of Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz’s bestseller on Spiro Agnew’s corruptions . This movie was in effect presented as another Kellner, while John Hulme was listed as the author of this movie’s screenplay. A script that is apparently a work of Marker,

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Fly

Fly

After three members of a BASE jumping community–a community in which jumpers get themselves out of mountains–get killed, a voice says, “What is this stupid thing they do?” One of the jumpers we follow for seven years gives us a perspective, Thomas, who says, “You jump, you fall. But, no. You wear a wing suit.

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Penelope

Penelope

It’s tempting, for the first few episodes of Netflix’s new coming-of-age series “Penelope,” to grumble at what feels like an insufferable tweeness. The show, an eight-part tween riff on “Into the Wild” (right down to a murmured monologue about the novel itself late in the series) co-written and executive produced by mumblecore darling Mark Duplass,

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Little Bites

Little Bites

More recent works of many horror films tend to underestimate the emotional intelligence of their audiences, as they would rather force their metaphors into audiences than leave them with unreconciled issues. Horror needs to have some grayness, some ambiguity and some wrestling as to what it seeks to achieve and what it is about. When

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Blink

Blink

The documentary concerning the family’s year long trip around the world might have been a positive yet superficial travel blink movie; it might have also been a wailing melodrama, considering what they have to go through. Rather, directors Daniel roher and Edmund Stinson choose to make the inherent drama of such a journey simmer under

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V/H/S/Beyond

V/H/S/Beyond

No one come to me, comfortable however, just say vant jaoks ei ole n secuvh nasalik anges. I trailers for 90 minutes I feel like there s going to die just holding it a little more discomforting. Everything that can have been expressed with a single trailing off of words is more than I can

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Monster Summer

Monster Summer

Since “Stranger Things” is plodding towards its last season which appears very far off such that the kids will soon be looking causes for retirement, it would be easy to begin hunting for the new one’s releases to plug the void. Pure strain 80s nostalgia for those cheesy family movies, be it a king adaptation

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