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LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE: Pushing The Yellow Bus 20 Years Later

Introduction It’s hard to overstate the enormous impact that Little Miss Sunshine had when the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. It...

THE END OF OAK STREET Review: A Summer Movie From Another Time

Introduction From the moment the soundtrack starts in David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, I felt a certain sense of nostalgia. This movie...

QUENTIN TARANTINO: What’s Next For One Of Hollywood’s Greatest Directors?

Introduction Almost 35 years into his career, Quentin Tarantino remains one of the most distinctive and influential filmmakers of the modern era. Emerging from the...

Rodgers And Hammerstein: A Cinematic Celebration – Part II

Introduction Join Cinema Scholars for Part II of our celebration of one of the great cinematic partnerships. When Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II joined...

NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959): An Appreciation

"A Hitchcock Picture to End All Hitchcock Pictures" Alfred Hitchcock made a total of fifty-three films. And it's amazing to consider just how many managed...

TRON: ARES Review – We Used Smaller Words This Time

Introduction It's been fifteen years since Tron: Legacy (2010) was released, and about a hundred years since the original Tron (1982), based on how much...

ROOFMAN Review: A Light-Hearted Fantasy, Tinged With Reality

Introduction No one could ever accuse director Derek Cianfrance of being un-serious. With a filmography that includes Blue Valentine (2010), The Place Beyond the Pines...

Rodgers & Hammerstein: A Cinematic Celebration – Part 1

Introduction From Depression to Dreamscapes. Join us as Cinema Scholars starts a journey that documents the rise and times of one of the most epic...