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Film Flight #3 | Faith Under Fire Spiritual crisis in the face of doubt-ridden silence Spiritual crisis is, I’m afraid to say, inevitable. Whether y […]

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Film Flight #2 | Screwball Storms Screwball Storms Ensemble chaos from the golden age of Hollywood comedy If you ask me, they just don’t make c […]

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Film Flight #1 | Immersive Revolution How images ignite resistance and shape rebellion A revolution begins with an idea. And over the course of time, as […]

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The Devil's Rejects | Embrace Your Demons I’m not sure what my reaction to or reading of this movie is supposed to be. Honestly, I feel vulnerable putting any […]

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The Tall T | Walking Life's Ugly Path Brennan and Boone have the same desires: to thrive, to belong; to build a life, a legacy, a home. But one feels […]

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Deerskin | An Image Of True Loneliness Sometimes a movie completely surprises you, leads you in a direction you don’t expect. Deerskin was one such film. G […]

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Sideways | Embracing The Sadness Sideways’ depiction of high-functioning depression destroys me every time. I laugh my ass off the whole way through, […]

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Lips of Blood | Jean Rollin's Meta Labyrinth There’s a beautiful moment in Lips of Blood where Frédéric attends a screening of one of Jean Rollin’s films. As S […]

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Ride Lonesome | The Art Of Simplicity I have a new motto for 2025, and perhaps for the rest of my life: keep it simple. The lack of simplicity has ruined […]

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La Haine | It's How You Land Beginning and ending a movie with the same quote might seem like a cheesy thing to do. And maybe sometimes it is. But […]

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Film Noir | Dreams And The Subconscious Now that I have a region-free Blu-ray player, I’ve been able to cycle through my Columbia Noir boxsets. Film noir is a […]

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Explained | Blessed Are The Forgetful Welcome to our Colossus Movie Guide for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. This guide contains our detailed library […]

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The Undercover Man | Finding Clarity In A Mad World Thank god for Tony Rayns, whose commentary for The Undercover Man made me realize what makes Joseph H. Lewis’s […]

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Eraserhead | A Call To Love Henry Henry has the face and demeanor of a debilitated soul – hapless, dour, confused, drained, beleaguered. This world he […]

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I Love You, David Lynch The relationship one has with art is a special thing. Sometimes a painting or a piece of music or a film speaks to you […]

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3 Film Noirs | Beyond the Femme Fatale It can be tough to find your footing with film noir at the beginning of your cinephile journey. What can help you […]

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A Cinephile's Guide to Film Noir Welcome to the Cinephile’s Guide to Film Noir. Here, you will find all the essential details about film noir for any […]

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Variety Lights (1950) | What Fellini learned from Neorealism This entry is part of My Cinephile Journey with Federico Fellini. As Pauline Kael rightfully points out in her […]

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My Cinephile Journey | Federico Fellini The first entry into My Cinephile Journey will be the films of Federico Fellini. Here, I will house all the different […]

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