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April 30, 2026

Stockfish Film Festival Review: ‘A Private Life’ Teaches Skeptics to Believe, and Back Again

Advertisements There is something in every atheist itching to believe, and something in every believer itching to doubt. Writer Mignon McLaughlin explored this idea in The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, which has become a roadmap of sorts for my interpretations of the world…

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April 30, 2026

Stockfish Film Festival Review: ‘To The West, in Zapata’ is a Triumph of Documentary Filmmaking

Advertisements A crocodile’s corpse is not something I ever thought I would have sympathy for — but then again, I never thought he’d do it, he being a man world-worn and toothpick-thin. A better student of anatomy would be able to chart…

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April 29, 2026

Stockfish Film Festival Interview: Will Collins, Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter of ‘Wolfwalkers’, on Irish Folklore and Anti-Imperialism in Animation

Advertisements After a storied career creating two entries in cult classic Cartoon Saloon’s “Irish folklore trilogy” — including the Oscar-nominated Wolfwalkers, the subject of our interview — screenwriter Will Collins speaks with a surprisingly youthful conviction about the power of storytelling. His…

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March 20, 2026

Weaving Through the Stars: How ‘Iron Lung’ Proved the Worth of Independent Cinema and Audience Autonomy

Markiplier’s history-altering “Iron Lung” video game adaptation led the weekend box office and proved the staying power of fan-led, non-traditional press campaigns.…

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March 16, 2026

‘The Perfect Neighbor’: The Death of Ajike Owens and the Case for Gun Reform

On the Central Florida case, the history of "Stand Your Ground" laws, and the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary highlighting it all.…

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December 28, 2025

Interview: ‘Time Life Volume 15. Monument to a Period of Time in Which I Lived’ Director Mungo Thomson on the Stillness of Collective Memory

Advertisements A two-minute curiosity, an exercise in illumination — Time Life Volume 15. Monument to a Period of Time in Which I Lived is a fascinating look at temporary space. As a candle burns down to the end of its wick, we…

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December 28, 2025

Interview: ‘Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes’ Director Gabriel Azorín on Stillness as Meditation

Advertisements A film that feels necessary to witness on a big screen is a rare sort of magic. With his second feature, Spanish director Gabriel Azorín sought to create that special alchemy. Though at times Last Night I Conquered the City of…

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December 28, 2025

Interview: ‘Drunken Noodles’ Director Lucio Castro on Writing Queer Desire in Reverse

Advertisements There is a single honeyed thread woven throughout the subdued quiet of Drunken Noodles — quite literally. In every change of “act” (which is also a change of lover), there is a title screen. An older man appears from behind, and…

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December 27, 2025

Interview: ‘Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain’ Director Oscar Ruiz Navia on the Short Film as Elegy

Advertisements Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain is a languid exploration of temporal space. Using ambient film taken on the streets of urban Montreal — alongside voice messages and images from what seems to be a life well-lived — Colombian writer-director…

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December 27, 2025

Interview: Director Ben Rivers on the Hopeful Dystopia of ‘Mare’s Nest’

Advertisements The magnificence of writer-director Ben Rivers’ latest offering, Mare’s Nest, is entirely in its willingness to hope. In this delightful fable, childhood becomes a universe unto itself, where the greatest hopes of the best of us are met with open arms,…

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