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Nazis, Relics, and John Williams: The Thrill of...

Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) is as much a triumph of whip-cracking adventure as it is a masterclass in cinematic musicology. From the moment Harrison Ford's fedora-wearing...

Survival and Solitude: The Striking Duality of ...

Friday, Film4, 6:45pm Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us (2017) is a tale of survival laced with unexpected intimacy. Starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet, the film follows two strangers—Ben,...

Finding Grace in Simplicity: The Gentle Power o...

Marielle Heller's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) is not your typical biopic. Rather than exhaustively charting the life of Fred Rogers, the film reframes the beloved children's television...

Cutthroat Island: The Pirate Film That Sank Stu...

Ah, Cutthroat Island—a cautionary tale in the annals of filmmaking, where ambition met calamity and left a trail of doubloons in its wake. Released in 1995 and directed by Renny...

Blade Runner 2049: Synths, Sadness, and the Sou...

Few sequels dare to approach a masterpiece like Blade Runner (1982), but Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 doesn’t just approach—it strides confidently into the neon haze, leaving footprints of existential...

The Revenant: A Symphony of Survival and the Un...

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant (2015) is less a historical narrative and more a visceral opera of endurance, revenge, and the interplay between man and nature. Anchored by Leonardo DiCaprio’s...