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Commentary on the worlds of entertainment, style, and media.

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08/04/2022

A Whole Lot of Elvis

Baz Luhrmann and the final chords of the musical biopic

by Sloane Dzhitenov

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08/01/2022

Textomancy

Sometimes Buffy needs a bit of a help

by Caelyn Cobb

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07/28/2022

Yu-Gi-Oh! and UsĀ 

Remembering Kazuki Takahashi, father of millennial childhood dreams

by Marek Makowski

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03/24/2022

Has Hollywood Finally Heard Us?

Empowering deaf creatives in the film industry

by David Giatras

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02/24/2022

A Rare Thing in His Age

How Wes Anderson's "most Wes Anderson film" uncovers something new

by Sloane Dzhitenov

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02/14/2022

Watching Wayne’s World

More than just a movie

by Julie Zigoris

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01/10/2022

Blow Out

A movie about sensationalism vs. reality

by Matt Hanson

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12/13/2021

Aide-de-Noir

Joan Harrison, "Phantom Lady", and the liberating art of the blazed trail

by Colin Fleming

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12/09/2021

We Interrupt This Program

WandaVision and the struggle to conceptualize the temporality of a wound

by Rachel Carlson

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12/06/2021

Tom McCarthy: Mr. Modular

"Plugging literature into other literature"

by Jared Marcel Pollen

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