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FMC 231 : The Apprentice Directed by Ali Abbasi

This controversial film, released in 2024, received great critical reviews and garnered two Oscar Nominations. The film is important because it demonstrates that one can still have an artistic voice without creating art that is actually propaganda, catering to an audience for likes. It also benefit…

GATEWAY CINEMA, a conversation – Episode 5A: Audiences, Part 1: Alternatives to “Perfect Days”

In this multi-part series, we’ve focused on just one movie to explore a key idea in film studies. But this one choice means we’ve left out multitudes. Here is the larger set of also-rans we wrestled with before finally choosing “Perfect Days”. *** Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 5A: “S…

That One Inch Barrier - Episode #46 - Border [Sweden, 2018]

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles! Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as they recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema. Grab your meatballs and flat pack…

The Lawler Brothers (Jake & Conor Lawler)

Brothers and filmmakers Jake Lawler and Conor Lawler join Eman Esfandi and Journey Bailey as the first guests on Keepers of the Fire. They discuss everything from brotherhood to football to mental health, as well as how they each fell in love with cinema in their own unique ways. The group analyze…

The Apprentice / "Watch The Throne" by JAY-Z & Kanye West

Oh no, what a pairing... I wonder what the common theme is between these two works... Find out what we have to say about the color gold, egomaniacs, and the current socioeconomic state of the world in this week's episode! Music: Watch The Throne (2011) by JAY-Z & Kanye West Film: The Apprentice (2…

Wicked [not] Good

It’s another straight-out-the-theater review — Wicked: For Good, the much-anticipated “Part 2” of the hit musical adaptation (3:45). Then Andy & Jenna start the annual Lord of the Rings rewatch (16:00), discover a gem from the ‘70s paranoia thriller pantheon (28:28), hang with some French zombies (…

fille de joie

     This week- four films about full service sex workers and how dominant social groups view them, from the dawn of the 20th century to Nazi era Germany to modern day Atlanta and Mashhad.      A new girl joins an upscale maison close, regulated and licensed legal brothels in France from 1804 to 19…

‘The Apprentice’: Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Pursuit of Power

The new film “The Apprentice,” takes us back to New York in the 1970s, to when Donald Trump was just starting to make a name for himself, and to his introduction to Roy Cohn, the ruthless attorney and political fixer. The fictionalized depiction of real events, shows how Cohn molded Trump into his …

The Apprentice: The Roy Cohn Playbook

Attack! Attack! Attack! Deny! Deny! Deny! Before Russia and Roger Ailes, Trump rose to power with the help of mega-lawyer and mega-villain Roy Cohn. That playbook is on full display in Trump's cabinet picks—a confederacy of lawless kleptocrats. Roy Cohn would be beaming with pride. Gabriel Sherman…

Savage House: “The more truthful we made it, the more honest it was — the more grotesque, sure, but also the funnier it was and the more timely it became.”

In this episode of vHopeful Conversations, I sit down with writer-director Peter Glanz to talk about his bold new period satire Savage House, a 1715-set black comedy that uses wigs, corsets, and a pox-ridden elite household to mirror the madness of our own political moment. We dig into how January …