Essays
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What Animated Films Are Saying About Our Political Culture
Inequality, sexism, and racism at the heart of our summer in animated films. Turn on your television and the world is filled with “us” and “them.”…
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On Abbas Kiarostami, and Four of his Essential Films You Can Stream Now
From his earlier works to late-term dramas, numerous Kiarostami films are currently streaming on various platforms.
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Why James Cameron is Wrong About Star Wars: The Force Awakens
And what we underestimate about sequels and reboots in general. For reasons largely unknown, James Cameron – director of such films as Titanic and Avatar –…
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Tweets from the End of the World: The Last Blockbuster’s Best Twitter Moments
If you’re a regular reader of OPS, you might have heard it mentioned a time or two that in our meteoric rise to here, both…
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Watching Game of Thrones With My Parents
A Game of Groans and the Rolling Stones I watch the Season Six Finale of Game of Thrones with my parents. It got weird.“Everyone is standing up…
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The Daring Cinema of Kanye West
Appreciating “Famous” and its role in essential cinema. Kanye West’s video for “Famous,” being a thing done by Kanye West, has caused a bit of…
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Game of Thrones: They Did Just Confirm Jon Snow’s Parentage
There seems to be some confusion on the part of the show and its proxies. Despite the fact that the Game of Thrones creative team just…
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Preacher’s Growing Pains
The Next Few Episodes of AMC’s New Show Will Be Huge. This article contains references to elements from the first four episodes of Preacher and the…
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Game of Thrones Explained: The Winds of Winter Bring The Future
9 big ideas from the season 6 finale. As it concluded its fifth season last year around this time, Game of Thrones did so with a…
