Why don’t studios bother with short films anymore? There simply has to be demand for bite-size stories in a world of two hour+ features and butt-numbing bingeable series. In the meantime, it’s the independent filmmakers
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CITY OF DREAMS (Book Review)
There’s a persistent romantic image that the logos that precede our multiplex blockbusters (Paramount’s mountain, Columbia’s torch lady) represent the great dream factories that have churned out motion pictures on huge soundstages hosting massive sets
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SWAN SONG Sings a Soulful Ballad
If our bodies can be cloned perfectly, right down to the molecule, does that mean our soul, our very essence, can be copied too? While human cloning remains illegal in much of the world, the
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Skymaster Down takes off towards great heights
Look up there, what do you see? An airplane. Where it lands? To safety, I hope. But that isn’t always the case at such a high altitude. One example of that is the Skymaster #2469
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THE MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS
“That’s the thing about stories…they never really end do they?” quips Jonathan Groff to Keanu Reeves as they mull over the meta meanings of the latest Matrix entry, Resurrections. The Lana half of the Wachowski
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WFF: RUN WOMAN RUN Takes the Gold
Modern society is engulfed by entire industries catering to our collective desire for self-improvement. Self-help books, online courses, diet plans…do any of these fulfill those same resolutions we make every new year? One could make
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