What You Should Be Watching (and Maybe NOT Watching): The Oscars Edition
The 2022 Oscars Award ceremony, as most of the world now knows, will be remembered as being marred in controversy. […]
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Category: What You Should Be Watching
What You Should Be Watching: Don’t Look Up
Last year, Squid Game set a new record for hours viewed on Netflix. Whereas traditional cinemas look at box office […]
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What You Should Be Watching: The French Dispatch
When you hear the word “Hollywood,” most people don’t think of the neighborhood in central Los Angeles rather of the […]
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What You Should Be Watching: the Squid Game
To suggest that you should be watching The Squid Game assumes that you aren’t or that you haven’t already, which is perhaps unlikely since it is now Netflix’s most popular and most-watched series ever. Despite being very violent (something that doesn’t normally appeal to me), suspenseful and intense, the themes and ideas presented are nonetheless interesting and worth thinking about in this so-called K-drama (think K-Pop but for a television).
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What You Should Be Watching: Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could not Be Televised)
When you think of iconic music festivals, what are the first ones that comes to mind? Depending on your age it might be Lollapalooza or, if you are a bit older maybe Woodstock.
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What You Should Be Watching: Parasite
By now, most people have heard about the unprecedented success of the South Korean film Parasite at this year’s Academy […]
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What You Should Be Watching: Little Women
In December, the faculty of the Film Studies program put together its top films of the decade. While the list […]
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Best Films of the Decade
As we approach the end of the decade (this year? Next year? Well, soon…), it’s time to look back and […]
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What You Should Be Watching: The Irishman (and the Joker)
This past October, director Martin Scorsese gave an interview with the British magazine Empire in which he dismissed the Marvel […]
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What You Should Be Watching: Casablanca
“You must remember this, a kiss is but a kiss…the fundamental things apply, as time goes by.” There is hardly […]
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