Reviews
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It’s no secret: Gen Z is fascinated by the Y2K aesthetic that defined millennial youth. As a millennial who lived through it, I remember an era that was uncurated, weird, and deeply imperfect. The looming threat of the “Millennium Bug” shaped everything. Fear of a computer glitch upending the world at midnight in 2000 was…
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Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, a 22-year-old native New Yorker, moved to the Midwest. Moving from Staten Island to Steubenville, Ohio, can be a major cultural shock. If you watch the movie 8 Mile closely, you’ll see that there are these sorts of frightening norms, a rigid Rust Belt blue-collar born social system at play that doesn’t…
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Hollywood musical biopics rarely capture the full complexity of their subjects. The truth is, these films aren’t demanded for the hope of an accurate depiction. They exist to satisfy the public’s appetite for a critical autopsy of an artist’s rise and fall. Their sometimes interpretive—and if need be, unauthorized—exposé. If we were to dissect an…
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It is a supernatural horror set in the 1930s Mississippi Delta. Twin brothers return home, trying to leave their troubled Chicago past behind them. The plan was to open a jukejoint with stolen booze and money from Al Capone and other Chicago gang outfits. A place for social gathering. Nights full of dancing, drinking, gambling,…