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AUTEUR SPOTLIGHT | Jane Campion

By Sophia Lu November 30, 2023

Within the top 250 highest-grossing films in 2022, women accounted for 24% of directors, producers, and writers on set. Since the first Academy Awards were handed out in 1929, only three women — Kathryn...

PHILM AND FILOSOPHY | Cinema Verite and Ecstatic Truth

By Luke McMahan November 30, 2023

Martin Scorsese stirred up controversy in 2019 by calling Marvel films “theme parks.” He argued that big franchise movies, with the main purpose of entertainment, were different from true cinema,...

New Student Club Spotlight: Georgetown Women in Film (GWIF)

By Millie Bohn March 16, 2022

https://youtu.be/i9l2KRHjliM In this debut episode of the Student Club Spotlight series, multimedia staff member Millie Bohn (COL '24) interviews Mackenzie Rabin (SFS '24), the president of the new...

FILM WITHOUT FLUFF |  ‘Kimi’ Explores Fabricated Reality

FILM WITHOUT FLUFF | ‘Kimi’ Explores Fabricated Reality

By Elena Martinez February 23, 2022

Many sci-fi thriller movies like “I, Robot” or “The Matrix” explore distant futures that are dominated by artificial intelligence, but none reflect a reality as close to ours as director Steven...

BOX OFFICE GLOBAL | “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” Celebrates Womanhood

BOX OFFICE GLOBAL | “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” Celebrates Womanhood

By Florence Fernandez February 16, 2022

Despite its humorous title “Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios,” which translates to “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” the 1988 film is a startlingly mindful depiction of the...

FILM WITHOUT FLUFF | ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ Revives a Classic Film Icon

FILM WITHOUT FLUFF | ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ Revives a Classic Film Icon

By Elena Martinez February 2, 2022

Disney has done it again, this time providing a television series sure to make content-deprived Star Wars fans breathe a sigh of relief. Released on Disney+ in December 2021, “The Book of Boba Fett,”...

FILM WITHOUT FLUFF | ‘Don’t Look Up’ Offers a Well-Intentioned Message, But Its Pseudo-Intellectual Social Comet-tary Fails to Make an Impact

FILM WITHOUT FLUFF | ‘Don’t Look Up’ Offers a Well-Intentioned Message, But Its Pseudo-Intellectual Social Comet-tary Fails to Make an Impact

By Elena Martinez January 19, 2022

Without a hint of irony, the star-studded cast of Adam McKay’s 2021 film “Don’t Look Up” seeks to preach to us about the dangers of our scientific ignorance. Centering on an impending apocalypse,...

Hoya Horror: James Wan’s ‘Malignant’ Is a Campy Breath of Fresh Air

Hoya Horror: James Wan’s ‘Malignant’ Is a Campy Breath of Fresh Air

By Lucia Pieto October 13, 2021

James Wan has solidified his work in the horror canon as a creator and director of three major horror franchises: The Conjuring, Insidious and Saw. Having proved himself again and again to be a master...

THE REEL DEAL: Baseball Genre Films Balance Timeless Gameplay with Transformational Cultural Moments

THE REEL DEAL: Baseball Genre Films Balance Timeless Gameplay with Transformational Cultural Moments

By Tucker Oberting April 30, 2020

The delay of the 2020 MLB season, slated to start in late March, and the indefinite suspension of nearly all other sporting events have left a glaring gap in the entertainment world. Fortunately, a wide...

MONKEY PAW PRODUCTIONS | Establishing Jordan Peele as one of the strongest directors of his generation, Us offers a scathing commentary on class and privilege while avoiding becoming pedantic. With standout performances by Lupita Nyongo and Winston Duke, Us will keep audiences thinking about its central metaphor even after the film ends.

‘Us’ Critiques Society Using Horror Genre

By Sean Fulmer March 28, 2019

★★★★★ The highly anticipated Jordan Peele film “Us” holds a mirror up to society, revealing the terrifying consequences of its actions. This horror masterpiece crafts a brilliant rumination...

The Womens Issue

The Women’s Issue

By Guide Editor March 22, 2019

MARVEL STUDIOS | Despite box office smashes like “Captain Marvel” and “Wonder Woman” that feature fictional women as protagonists such as Captain Marvel, above, countless women’s stories have been deemed unfit for film or television by an unreceptive and discriminatory Hollywood industry that is loath to center women’s experiences or cast women as leads.

Women’s Stories Limited by Industry Discrimination

By Michelle Brown and Steven Botsoe March 22, 2019

When “Iron Man” hit theaters in 2008, it opened up the floodgates for the development of the Marvel cinematic universe. Since then, a steady stream of semi-annual, male-dominated superhero films...

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