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04/10/201704/11/2017

Movie Mondays

Honesty and Love in “Midnight Cowboy”

This week, Movie Monday found me watching Midnight Cowboy, the 1969 film-that-couldn’t, pulled off miraculously by director John Schlesinger. Midnight Cowboy is a spectacular blip in the vast expanse of film history, ignored by some, cult

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05/22/201705/20/2017

Westerns Are All Just About Dudes, Aren’t They?

I recently watched three different Westerns, and I have to say, I, like, get it now. Westerns are all about a man trying to escape the passage of time. He holds on to what really makes him a man–his guns,

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05/22/201705/20/2017

Movie Mondays

Westerns Are All Just About Dudes, Aren’t They?

I recently watched three different Westerns, and I have to say, I, like, get it now. Westerns are all about a man

More

04/10/201704/11/2017

Movie Mondays

Honesty and Love in “Midnight Cowboy”

This week, Movie Monday found me watching Midnight Cowboy, the 1969 film-that-couldn’t, pulled off miraculously by director John Schlesinger. Midnight Cowboy is a spectacular blip

More

Honesty and Love in “Midnight Cowboy”

This week, Movie Monday found me watching Midnight Cowboy, the 1969 film-that-couldn’t, pulled off miraculously by director John Schlesinger. Midnight Cowboy is a spectacular blip

The One Stereotype “Moana” Doesn’t Break

Disney has a few long-standing traditions for its princess movies, and Moana breaks nearly all of them. Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) isn’t white, isn’t

What Is It About The Godfather?: Reconciling The “Woman” in Old Movies

Even after 45 years, The Godfather is a movie that transcends criticism. Sure, back in the day, writers liked to pretend that

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