‘Shoot to Marry’ (2020) is not the disgruntled indulgence of a man who fails to understand women, but a man who struggles to know how to be himself.
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INTERVIEW: Levi Eddie Aluede and Visions of a Vivid Life
When director Levi Eddie Aluede picks up my Instagram video call, he is sitting outside on a balcony. As if already prepared for a profile shot, Levi finds himself naturally lit by the sun, leaned back in a relaxed pose that my long-abused spine immediately envies. I’m sat on my bed twenty minutes awake, attempting…
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REVIEW: ‘3OHA (2019)’ Fails to Grasp Any of the Questions it Begins to Ask
Told in two parts, 3OHA marks the remarkable cultural shifts caused by the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Ethan Hawke: Weaponising Boyish Naivety against American Essentialism
The plotlines of Dead Poets Society (1989), Training Day (2001) and First Reformed (2017) are discussed below. Essentialism is the idea that every entity has a set of recognisable attributes that are inherent to its identity and function. There are many different schools of thought that apply, debate and dispute this idea but for the…
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The Healing Potential of Being Present
The plotlines of Lost in Translation (2003), Paterson (2014) and Columbus (2017) are discussed below. “The world in which you live from day to day is made from habit and memory. The perilous zones are the times when the self, also made from habit and memory, gives way. Then, if only for a moment, you…
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