Tag: movies
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Becoming Led Zeppelin… But Barely
For a band as electrifying and larger-than-life as Led Zeppelin, you’d expect a documentary about their origins to be just as thrilling. Unfortunately, Becoming Led Zeppelin does anything but. Instead of capturing the raw energy, mystique, and chaos that defined the band, the film delivers a sluggish, overly polished history lesson that fails to do…
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This Week At the Gateway: Anora
You know that moment when everything seems to be looking up – and then just plummets? Director Sean Baker, known for The Florida Project and Red Rocket, knows that feeling all too well, and displays it perfectly in his new faux-Cinderella love story Anora. Mikey Madison (Scream, One Upon a Time… In Hollywood) finally gets…
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The Machine Of The American Dream: The Brutalist
The Cambridge Dictionary defines Brutalism as “a building style in which buildings are large and heavy-looking, and often made from concrete”. From my semester-long class History of Architecture that I took eons ago, I find this definition shallow and clunky. It misses the essence of the movement. Brutalist architecture came around after the end of…