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Timeless ABBA Songs Resonate During the Lower Moreland High School Drama Club’s Production of Mamma Mia!

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With 25 years of stage productions under its belt, Mamma Mia! and its easily recognizable ABBA songs are definitely fan favorites. After memorable renditions of Mean Girls and The Wizard of Oz, the Lower Moreland High School’s Drama Club is presenting Mamma Mia! as its spring musical. Students, parents, friends, and community members are certain to be delighted by what the hard-working cast and […]

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Joker: Folie à Deux Suffers From a Less Than Receptive Audience Rather Than Actual Faulty Filmmaking

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Review of Joker: Folie à Deux Since being printed on the pages of the first Batman issue in April 1940, The Joker has earned a reputation of being one of the most complex comic book villains ever conceived.  A devilish depiction of a crazed clown hellbent on spreading chaos throughout the infamous Gotham City, the

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Exclusive From The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival: The Whitest Kids U’ Know Discuss Their Zany New Animated Comedy Mars

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Interview With Sam Brown, Darren Trumeter, and Timmy Williams of The Whitest Kids U’ Know A pinnacle of early 2000s comedy, The Whitest Kids U’ Know, comprised of Timmy Williams, Sam Brown, Darren Trumeter, Zach Cregger and the late Trevor Moore, weren’t sure if their new animated film Mars would resonate with more distinguished Tribeca

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Exclusive from The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival: Director Elina Street Illuminates a Poignant Queer Story with “My Best Friend”

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Interview with Filmmaker Elina Street Even before co-directing the Emmy-award-winning docuseries “The Lesbian Bar Project” Elina Street held a fervent desire to showcase queer stories. As a queer woman herself, growing up consuming the underground queer media that existed at the time, Street realizes the intense communal impact of representation in film and television. For

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The Tribeca Film Festival 2024: Julia Aks and Steve Pinder Entwine Comedy and Education With “Jane Austen’s Period Drama”

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Interview with Julia Aks and Steve Pinder    Truly successful comedy provokes meaningful thought and conversation from audiences, providing laughs first, but ultimately saying something more profound underneath its jovial exterior. This is a clear throughline in “Jane Austen’s Period Drama,” a short film premiering at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival on June 7, written

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The New Screen Fest Solidifies a Film Community at The New School

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Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School celebrated an eclectic display of creativity and dedication earlier this month with the 2nd edition of The New Screen Fest.  Started last year, The New Screen Fest is a student-run, faculty-assisted film festival that showcases short films made by The New School students and alumni.

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Pop Culture Press Movie Review: Miller's Girl

Miller’s Girl Clashes Dedicated Performances with a Rushed, Reluctant Story

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Review of Miller’s Girl  Most of us know what it’s like to be “18 and entirely unremarkable.” The solution to this predicament being an emotionally-driven attempt to seduce a teacher poisoned by mediocrity however, is probably not as familiar to many.  The student-teacher relationship has been portrayed, fetishized, and critiqued countless times and Jade Halley Bartlett’s

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Sugar, Butter, Big Screen! Waitress The Musical’s Pro-Shot Hits Theaters Just in Time for a Holiday Treat

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It only takes a taste when it’s something special, or in the case of the Tony award nominated Broadway musical Waitress, it only took a listen of its original cast album for fans to be hooked and wanting to see the show up on stage.   The musical, based on the 2007 film of the

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: The Worst or Best Film in The YA/SCI-FI Series

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Review of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes    When The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins published The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, a prequel to the 3 insanely popular Hunger Games books, fans were reignited with new material to interact with dissect. While some series are known for having an unnecessary amount

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Five Nights at Freddy’s Leaves Fans Elated but Casual Horror Viewers Disappointed

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Review of Blumhouse Productions’s Five Nights at Freddy’s   Indie game developer Scott Cawthon was in a cyclical rut. He couldn’t seem to create a connection with audiences through his games which mostly took inspiration from religious allegories and Biblical stories. He decided to shift gears after scathing criticism towards his game Chipper & Sons

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Rehya Stevens Gives a Show-Stopping Voice to The Soundtrack of Secrets of a Celebrity Nanny

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Review of Rehya Stevens’s songs in Secrets of a Celebrity Nanny   The new Lifetime drama Secrets of a Celebrity Nanny doesn’t only portray a riveting story about a young woman desperate to save herself from the dangerous inner circle of a glamourous superstar, the film also features an eclectic soundtrack fronted by the lively

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Philadelphia Film Fest Exclusive Review: The Holdovers is a New Must-Watch During the Holiday Season

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Review of The Holdovers   Alexander Payne’s films have always been known for their biting satirical commentary and unmatched comedic timing. Now he’s bringing a handful of heart home for the holidays to mesmerize audiences with The Holderovers. Set against a Wintery New England backdrop in the 1970s, The Holdovers follows the story of a cynical

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Charles Newman On Creating The Diverse Soundtrack From Universal Pictures’s The List

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We all remember those iconic scenes from a selection of films that have remained a staple of cinema. From the actor’s performance to the sharp editing and mood-determining lighting, every little intricate detail melds together to create a moment that audiences will soon label as unforgettable. Of course, there’s another key element that assures a

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Oppenheimer is a stunning spectacle of filmmaking but you’ll probably need a rewatch to catch everything

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Review of Oppenheimer  Despite their drastic contrasting tones, two of 2023’s Summer blockbusters in particular have dominated the collective consciousness of movie fans around the globe: Barbie and Oppenhemier. Dubbing July 21, the release date of the two films “Barbenhemier” day, fans flocked to the theater to catch both films on the same day resulting in

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A24’s Past Lives Will Dazzle You With its Moving Story and Enchanting Visuals

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Review of Past Lives    “[In-Yun] means providence or fate,” says Nora Moon to her future husband right before their first kiss. A canopy of string lights hanging from the tall Montauk trees surround them, encasing them in their perfect moment and yet, this isn’t the love story audiences are attracted to.  Distributed by entertainment darling

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The Flash Fails to Revive Hope for the Future of the Now Reset DCU

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Review of DC Studios’s The Flash  DC Studios has seemingly always remained a step behind its rival studio Marvel, both critically and financially.  With four Marvel films in the top 10 highest-grossing films of all time and DC not even making the top 30, the studio has struggled with gaining positive reception from fans and critics

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Elemental Delivers A Charming Love Story Despite Box Office Failure

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Disney Pixar’s latest film Elemental had the lowest opening weekend performance the studio has seen grossing $29.6 million. In comparison, Pixar’s last film Lightyear grossed $51 million in its opening weekend.  Elemental’s financial failure is largely in part due to the fact that Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse continues to dominate the box office, currently standing

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M3gan is the latest Horror/Thriller, but will she haunt the hall of horror classics?

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Review of M3gan    4 feet tall and sprouting a titanium build, M3gan is the latest terror to come out of Blumhouse Productions in association with Atomic Monster. The film was directed by Gerard Johnstone who is most known for his 2014 horror film Housebound. An AI robot built by robotics genius Gemma (Allison Williams)

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The Whale: One of the Most Controversial and Emotional Movies of the Year

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Review of Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale    If you’ve been subject to a conversation of recent film discourse lately, you’ve probably heard of A24’s The Whale. The film, based on the play of the same name by Samuel D. Hunter follows Charlie, an online English teacher who due to an eating disorder resulting from an immeasurable

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Women Film Critics Circle Selects “She Said” and “Women Talking” As Award-Winning 2022 Female-Driven Films

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Women Film Critics Circle Selects Award-Winning 2022 Female-Driven Films Every once in a while we see one or two movies that move us emotionally and make us feel compelled to announce to the world how thought-provoking and life-altering the screenplay, acting, directing, and other aspects of the film are. And this is the case with

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Airen DeLaMater Shares Chilling Details From her New Film Impuratus

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Airen DeLaMater Shares Details From her New Film Impuratus Actress Airen DeLaMater isn’t afraid of a challenging role, even if it means traveling to some of the scariest renowned places in the country. After starring in a supporting role in Thundersmoke Media’s Apparition (directed by Quinn Saunders) in 2015, DeLaMater is returning to the screen

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Strange World Makes History for Disney but was Barely Seen by or Heard of by Audiences

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Strange World Review Following Encanto, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 61st animated feature, Strange World, had a lot to live up to. After the widespread success of Encanto as a vibrant musical and beautiful story, Disney fans were anticipating what was next. Despite initial excitement, it was soon clear Strange World wasn’t meant to ride the

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The School for Good and Evil Creates a Fantastical Atmosphere but Contains a Rushed, Oversaturated Story

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Review of Netflix’s The School for Good and Evil  Netflix’s latest fantasy thriller, The School for Good and Evil had a lot of expectations to live up to. Fans of the original book series by Soman Chainani were skeptical as most who have a previous attachment to a franchise are, hoping that the film version would

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Blonde is Not Nearly as Cinematically Artistic as it May Claim-It’s Actually Quite Repulsive

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Netflix’s Blonde Review  Since her rise to fame in the early 50s, Marilyn Monroe has remained America’s most prominent sex symbol. From her luminous blonde hair to her memorable white dress that graced the screens in The Seven Year Itch, audiences, most notably men have not been able to get her out of their heads. Since her

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Is Don’t Worry Darling’s Stellar Cast and Beautiful Cinematography Enough to Save it?

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Don’t Worry Darling Movie Review After creating a modern teen classic with Booksmart, actress, and director, Olivia Wilde shifted her skillset to crafting a subversive, chilling, deconstructive psychological thriller…in theory. With the announcement of pop sensation Harry Styles as the male lead and the initial drop of the trailer last year, moviegoers were instantly entranced

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Jurassic World: Dominion Proves to be Another Typical, Forgettable Summer Blockbuster

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Jurassic World: Dominion Is  Another Typical, Forgettable Summer Blockbuster Despite grossing almost 1 billion dollars at the box office, Jurassic World: Dominion proves to be just as generic as any other CGI-clustered summertime blockbuster. The latest installment in the Jurassic World trilogy will most likely (and hopefully) be the last Jurassic World film. It follows

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The Black Phone: A New Horror Classic; Or Another Blumhouse Failure

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The Black Phone Is Another Blumhouse Failure The latest from horror staple Blumhouse Productions and Sinister director Scott Derrickson proves you can harness all the typical horror elements and still end up with a pretty underwhelming film. The film stars child actors Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw as Finney and Gwen Blake who are both

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