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#Foreign Film, Indie Film

LAVA (2019): An Ambitious Bite at an Artistic Apocalyptic Future

Don’t let the promotional poster fool you: despite it being an animated indie film, there is more to the film’s premise than meets the eye. Débora (Janeane Garofalo) is a tattoo artist who is still trying to get over a bad break up. Consequently, her group of friends decide to get together and watch the popular television series “Gain of Clones” to cheer her up. … Continue reading LAVA (2019): An Ambitious Bite at an Artistic Apocalyptic Future

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#Foreign Film, Indie Film

Unmasked (2018): A Fight against Social Stigmas

In his debut feature film Unmasked (2018), Mostafa Keshvari presents an ambitious narrative, elevating the feminist’s battlecry while also tackling Islamophobia. Filled with metaphorically moving settings and symbolism, Unmasked definitely presents the importance of cinematic expression as it effectively allows audiences to enter the life experiences of those who are most often misrepresented and unheard in media–South Asians. Farash (Sara M. Omran) is a young … Continue reading Unmasked (2018): A Fight against Social Stigmas

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Indie Film

Agents of Secret Stuff (2010): A Look Back at Honest Beginnings

Compared to everything that has happened this year, our lives were impacted in a much more peaceful way in 2010: Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and Justin Bieber started to enter and revolutionize the music industry; Neopets and Club Penguin were popular childhood pastimes; Facebook and Twitter gained prominence in our daily lives; rushing to get the next iPhone was the biggest hype; and the Harry … Continue reading Agents of Secret Stuff (2010): A Look Back at Honest Beginnings

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Hollywood Films, Indie Film

Paper Tiger (2020) and Over the Moon (2020): Unveiling the Unheard Voices of the Asian American Community

Growing up as a first generation Vietnamese American, I have always felt unseen everytime I turned on the TV and/or went to the movies. Most of the time, whenever there was a chance to see any Vietnamese character or a featured narrative about Vietnam, it had always centered around the Vietnam War and was always exclusively written in the lens of the American struggle–the only … Continue reading Paper Tiger (2020) and Over the Moon (2020): Unveiling the Unheard Voices of the Asian American Community

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Indie Film

Murder Bury Win (2020): A Step-by-Step Guide to Creative Chaos

The board game Clue, the card game Mafia, and, the most recently popularized mobile game Among Us: each of these fun, titular pass times all share one common objective–in order to win, you must kill your victim(s) and get away with it. Playing the role of murderer is the biggest thrill of these games as you watch those all around you suffer under your wrath. … Continue reading Murder Bury Win (2020): A Step-by-Step Guide to Creative Chaos

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Indie Film

Taciturn Tango (2018): The Intimate Struggles of Youth

“We’ll be going the same way for a bit, but eventually you’ll have your stop and I’ll have mine.“ Love is humanity’s Forbidden Fruit: we all want a taste of it but once we do and become heartbroken from it, we wish that we didn’t go through with it at all. Taciturn Tango (2018) by Hon Hoang is an indie film that explores the double-sidedness … Continue reading Taciturn Tango (2018): The Intimate Struggles of Youth

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