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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...
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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...
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Almost 35 years into his career, Quentin Tarantino remains one of the most distinctive and influential filmmakers of the modern era. Emerging from the...
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Apophenia - the erroneous perception of patterns or correlations in random or unconnected phenomena, events, and data. When it comes to horror, the most...
Cinema Scholars highlights some of our favorite films from Fantastic Fest 2025. The week-long film festival takes place annually at the flagship Alamo Drafthouse...
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Despite the seemingly endless array of action/thriller titles that have filled marquees for decades, most of these films can generally be broken down into...
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Hindsight can be a double-edged sword. On one side, knowledge gained from life events teaches people how to make better decisions going forward. On...
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From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor teamed up four times (Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil,...