List: film and theater | Curated by Marilyn Flower

Jan 31, 2025
20 stories
film and theater
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Fanfare
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T. Kent Jones
Go With ‘Flow’The best film of 2024 asks, what happened to the humans?
Jan 10
4
Jan 10
4
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Brain Labs
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T. Kent Jones
‘The Brutalist’ — If You Build ItGive Adrien Brody the Oscar, he’s so very, very good in this
Jan 28
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Jan 28
13
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Fanfare
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T. Kent Jones
Hugh Grant is Not CuteHe deserves an Oscar nomination for ‘Heretic’
Nov 28, 2024
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Nov 28, 2024
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Pete Buttigieg
The Deciding Decade: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ director Jon Chu on diversity in storytelling and…
Oct 28, 2020
Oct 28, 2020
Barack Obama
Here Are My Favorite Books, Movies, and Music of 2023As I usually do during this time of year, I wanted to share my favorite books, movies, and music of 2023.
Dec 29, 2023
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Dec 29, 2023
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MuddyUm
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T. Kent Jones
‘Casablanca’ — the Breaking  the Fourth Wall VersionHere’s looking directly at you, audience
Jun 18, 2024
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Jun 18, 2024
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Fanfare
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Akos Peterbencze
25 Years Later ’10 Things I Hate About You’ Still Nails Universal StereotypesAnd that’s not a bad thing: Gil Junger’s cult classic might be dated, but it’s as amusing and uplifting as ever
Mar 16, 2024
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Mar 16, 2024
4
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Writing Community
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Fahri Karakas
Top 20 Inspiring Lessons We Can Learn From Lin Manuel MirandaLin-Manuel Miranda is a talented and innovative artist whose work has transformed not only the world of theatre but also pop culture and…
Jun 3, 2023
Jun 3, 2023
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Prism & Pen
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James Patrick Nelson
The Gays Who Lived: A History of Queer Murders and Suicides on FilmHow do we reckon with this frustrating cinematic trope?
Feb 15, 2024
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Feb 15, 2024
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Prism & Pen
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James Patrick Nelson
An Out Gay Man Is Nominated for Best Actor…Once Every 26 YearsA History of Queer Exclusion at the Academy Awards
Jan 17, 2024
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Jan 17, 2024
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Borja Garcia
Regal Roles. The Queens That Rule MoviesExploring the queen archetype in films, this article examines different types, storytelling, and the impact of these characters in movies
Jan 22, 2024
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Jan 22, 2024
23
Odin Halvorson
The Best Film The Year You Were Born! (1931–1971)From the Silents to the Boomers, experience our history in film.
Nov 1, 2022
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Nov 1, 2022
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ART & SCIENCE
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The Academy
Meeting Divine: A “Hairspray” StoryAs told by Jerry Stiller
Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018
Gigi M. Green
Can A Tv Show Writer Own Their Show?The good news… yes. The bad news… it’s very hard to do.
Feb 2, 2023
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Feb 2, 2023
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Tom Kuegler
How Being Too Nice Can Ruin Us — The Banshees Of Inisherin AnalysisThe Banshees of Inisherin is a super deep movie, and it has a lot to say about religion, the “masks” we wear in public, and staying true to…
Feb 16, 2023
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Feb 16, 2023
5
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Middle-Pause
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Margie Pearl
My Acting Career was BriefFrom an angel to a girlfriend to Alice in Wonderland
Feb 23, 2023
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Feb 23, 2023
13
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Fanfare
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Simon Dillon
Ten Film Noir FavouritesMy picks from the golden era of gumshoes and femme fatales.
Jun 3, 2022
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Jun 3, 2022
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History of Women
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Linda Caroll
5 Brilliant And Talented Women Who Inspired Disney’s Cruelest VillainsWhat do 3 old women, a drag queen and a Hollywood hell-raiser have in common? They all became Disney villains.
Jul 25, 2022
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Jul 25, 2022
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Will Leitch
Twenty Observations From the Academy Awards Where Will Smith Smacked Chris RockLike, what?
Mar 28, 2022
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Mar 28, 2022
2
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Middle-Pause
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Marilyn Flower
I love Award-Winning Actress Frances McDormand for Her Many Talents and How She Models Graceful…Let me emulate her with as much acceptance and dignity as I can
Mar 24, 2022
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Mar 24, 2022
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