Stories By Sophie Martinez
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Movie News
On The Divide: An Abortion Fight at the Border Plays at the rePRO Film Fest
August 17, 2021Directors Leah Galant and Maya Cueva didn’t set out to make a film about the last...
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Cousins Intertwines Māori Identity On- and Off-Screen
July 22, 2021In 2010, Māori filmmaker Merata Mita passed away — and with her, so did a 20-year...
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Avatar: The Last Airbender Creators Leaving Netflix Adaptation Isn’t All Bad News (Commentary)
August 16, 2020Last week, the creators of the animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, announced they are no...
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Project Power Presents Super Powers Unlike Most Superhero Films
August 13, 2020Project Power — the latest from Ariel “Rel” Schulman and Henry Joost — stars Jamie Foxx,...
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11 Films That Inspired Social Change
August 1, 2020Hollywood is in the midst of a reckoning about how its films influence society at large...
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Interviews
Yes, God, Yes: Girl Meets Vagina in Karen Maine’s Directorial Debut
July 29, 2020Growing up in Iowa, Yes, God, Yes director Karen Maine remembers “feeling really guilty as a...
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7 White Actors Who Will No Longer Voice POC Characters in Animation
July 9, 2020White actors have played Black, Asian, Latinx, and Indigenous characters for years. And while onscreen whitewashing...
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Author Viet Thanh Nguyen Cannot Recommend Da 5 Bloods
June 28, 2020Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s personal mission is to watch every Hollywood movie about the Vietnam...
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Spike Lee Explains How 4 Little Girls Shows the Power of Film
June 26, 2020In July 1997, Spike Lee was preparing for an Oscar-qualification run of his documentary 4 Little...
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Netflix’s Top-Watched Last Days of American Crime Earns 0% Rating on Rotten Tomatoes
June 11, 2020A top-watched film in its first weekend and still in the Top 10 today, Netflix’s newest...
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