The Aesthetic Wonder

The mystery of Repo Man is how it fares so well, considering how boisterous, belligerent, and ridiculous it is. It …

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Throw every abstract color in its most vibrant iteration, esoteric mysticism, and pagan symbolism into a hurricane and wait for …

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The best glimpse of the driving motif underpinning the disjointed encounters of Slacker comes courtesy of a Dostoevsky acolyte cum …

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Suspiria establishes a pigmented alphabet, a lexicon of tonal variants and stained glass. Suspiria casts us adrift, leaves us unanchored …

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Hauntology, coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, has been defined by cultural academics as ‘a nostalgia for lost futures’. In …

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Taking tawdry and brazen melodrama to its kitschy zenith, Valley of the Dolls delights with its embrace of over the …

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Big Trouble in Little China is big on problematic subtexts and cultural misappropriation and lite on nuance and good taste. …

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“He’s like tripendicular, ya know?” Valley‌ ‌Girl is a cheeky‌ ‌send‌ ‌up‌ ‌of‌ ‌American‌ ‌consumerism,‌ ‌social‌ ‌pecking‌ ‌orders,‌ ‌and‌ ‌the‌ ‌latent‌ …

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In The Umbrellas of Cherbourg the whimsical sets, fit for a sugar sweet reverie, belie a bittersweet desperation and emotional …

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