oscars awards
Posted in Awards Season Oscars

My Love/Hate Relationship with the Academy Awards

The year was 1992 and a wide-eyed, Disney-obsessed eight-year-old Australian boy was sitting down to watch the Academy Awards for the very first time. The…

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Leon
Posted in Culture Movies Year in Film

How Far Can We Embrace the Character and World of Mathilda in Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional?

The cinematic year of 1994 might carry varying degrees of weight a quarter of a century later. The visceral landscape, our resonating view of film,…

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ITOL Better
Posted in Featured Women

In Their Own League Editorial: We Need To Do Better

Originally posted on In Their Own League on September 17th Here are some statistics from the Women and Hollywood survey from 2018 that I would…

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Tess
Posted in Culture Review

A Pure Review of Tess (1979) Somewhat Faithfully Presented as an Editorial

A review of possibly the most treasured film of the year – personally speaking – was intended to close the chapter that is 1979 in…

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