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Last Saturday, I was lucky enough to be invited to Chevalier’s Books for a Q&A with Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell and film director Chloé ...
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By design, Julian Glander’s BOYS GO TO JUPITER feels unassuming. If you’ve been on the Internet at all in the last decade-and-a-half, you’ve ...
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FAILED STATE is an independently produced feature film about the pandemic summer of 2020, told from the perspective of Dale, a package delivery ...
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H. Nelson Tracey’s BREAKUP SEASON has a unique aura about it—there’s a dash of cynicism, certainly, but ultimately that energizes the film well, ...
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Ryan Martin Brown is a bit of a jack of all trades in the independent Brooklyn film scene, but he would rather talk ...
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Three years after the largest protests in American history against police brutality and racial injustice, it can be difficult to see where we ...
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With quarantine in no sight of ending and the summer sun beating down, we’re all in the mood for a little adventure. Carter ...
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It’s an open secret that many of our contributors, film or otherwise, can be found on the online film community Letterboxd. For the ...
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