Category: Science Fiction
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Today, I went to the Cinema Society screening of Frankenstein (2025), followed by a Q&A with director Guillermo del Toro and actor Jacob Elordi, who plays The Creature. It was an insanely cool experience. Roger Durling began the screening with a statement of “Welcome to church!” It certainly felt like it, with a packed crowd…
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Making your heart pound in more ways than one, The Fly (1986) stands as one of Cronenberg’s crowning achievements. Jesus. One of my favorite films in the last year was The Substance (2024), and I still go back and watch clips of it sometimes. There’s so much to mine from that film, but a lot…
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This highly underrated work of science fiction takes an extraterrestrial perspective on our world by questioning who is the real alien: those from other planets, or ourselves? Science fiction is always a tricky genre to navigate. Sometimes the best way to explore humanity is by venturing outside of it, even though sometimes the fascination with…
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As I was watching La Jetée (1962), I stumbled across an interesting trend; there seemed to be a lot of fetishization of the female character. The film’s formatting seems to mandate this, as instead of using live footage, the film is almost entirely shot with still photos, and this allows the viewer to hyper fixate…
BEYOND THE FRAME 