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Issue #449: Na Hong-jin’s Hope is More Similar to The Wailing Than You Think
There is no shortage of excitement in the waning warm weeks in Massachusetts. Brimfield has come and gone, I went to the final show of the year this past weekend. Proverbial tents are emerging for the Big E. I can still watch TV on my porch...
Issue #448: Álvaro Olmos Torrico’s The Condor Daughter Showcases Bolivian Cinema
I like basketball. It would be a stretch to say I like sports, writ large. But what I like and love about basketball is competition. The effort, commitment, aspiration (pun intended) to do something and overcome a completely arbitrary obsta...
Issue #447: Video Games and the Power of Imagination
What’s the difference between having the eyes of a beast and being a mad dog?
I have a pop-culturally informed image of people on the subway reading manga on the way to work. When it comes to Berserk (1989) and Vagabond (1998), it is hard...
Issue #446: Michael Mann’s Manhunter is Underrated
Boston is the city of champions once again.
There have only been nine seasons of Big3 basketball and only two seasons where the teams have represented cities. So Boston has won half of the Big3 championships they competed for. Pretty good....
Issue #445: Accepting Rejection (the book)
The topic of the nearly five-thousand word essay, beneath the work I close read, is the question of timeliness and timelessness. I have certainly not been timely in reading Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection (2024) even after reading “The Femini...
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