With ‘Barbie,’ Chick Flick Is Back with a Vengeance

After a long drought of major motion pictures celebrating femininity, ‘Barbie’ (2023) is set to change that. Here's a character so unabashedly girly and fashionable – traits long missing from big blockbuster female leads – and is (gasp) celebrated for it. …

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Revisiting 2011 Cult Classic: ‘Drive’

Advertisements “There’s a hundred thousand streets in the city. You don’t need to know the route. You give me a time and a place. I give you a five-minute window….” With two thieves as his passengers, The Driver threads the streets of…

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First Man

Advertisements At first glance, a Neil Armstrong biopic might seem like a peculiar choice for Damien Chazelle, coming off the heels of his deeply personal one-two punch of Whiplash and La La Land. Those films, as well as his 2009 debut Guy…

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