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2024OscarNominatedDocumentaryShorts
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llyzabeth

The 2024 Oscar-nominated Documentary Shorts

This was a satisfying category to watch this year, partly because they weren’t all complete downers (I applaud the effort that goes into documentary films, but some years they’re all so depressing it’s really difficult to power through the whole list) but also because I didn’t have any trouble tracking them down; they were all

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Binary System Podcast
llyzabeth

Binary System Podcast #401 – WTNV #243 “Lost and Found” and more of the Oscar Nominations

On this week’s Night Vale episode, we highly approve of Cecil devoting an entire broadcast to Lost and Found submissions, because writer Brie Williams is very good with lists of random weirdness, unexpected sweetness, and things with TEETH. From there we jump into three more Oscar nominated films we finally watched, namely Oppenheimer (brilliant but

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PoorThingsReview
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Guest Writer

Review – Poor Things

Reviewer David Leninhawk returns with a look at Poor Things. Poor Things is an absolute triumph of a motion picture. It is an often hilarious tale of female self-actualization set in a visually splendorous world which recalls the Victorian age by way of Georges Méliès and, mildly, even a bit H.G. Wells or Terry Gilliam.

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Binary System Podcast
Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #398 – Lore Olympus episode 264 and 265

In the latest Lore Olympus episodes we’ve read, Demeter revealed a little more about Persephone’s history as a Fertility Goddess (namely, that she definitely is one, and that someone else in Demeter’s generation used to be, not sure who). That was episode 264, and the theme of 265 can be summed up even more briefly:

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2024OscarNominations
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llyzabeth

Oscar 2024 Nominations announced!

The nominations for the 2024 Oscars have been announced! See below for the full list, including links to movie reviews we’ve already posted. Check back often, as we’ll update the list with even more reviews to come. Shout out to Hugh Verheylewegen for all his reviews, find more on instagram! Best Picture American FictionAnatomy of

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TheBoyAndTheHeronReview
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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Boy and the Heron

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, The Boy and The Heron follows Mahito (Luca Padovan), a young 12-year-old boy, as he struggles to settle in a new town after his mother’s death. However, when a talking heron (Robert Pattinson) informs Mahito that his mother is still alive, he enters an abandoned tower in search of her, which

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GodzillaMinusOneReview
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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Godzilla Minus One

Directed by Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus One takes place in Postwar Japan which at its lowest point faces a new crisis in the form of a giant monster called Godzilla, who was baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. It has been 69 years since Godzilla made his first appearance in film and

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Killers of the flower moon review
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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Killers of the Flower Moon

Directed by Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon is set in the 1920s when members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances after oil was discovered on the tribal land, sparking a major F.B.I. investigation. I’ve watched all of Scorsese’s work over the years and in my view,

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