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Yazmin Omana

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If 'The Crown' is so good, does it matter if it's true?

It is no surprise that Netflix’s "The Crown" would create uproar after its newest season — centered on Princess Diana and Prince Charles’ relationship — released earlier in November. The show, like all historical adaptations, gleans from both historically significant and entertainingly salacious phases of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.Dec 1 2022
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How 'Kill Bill' finds its feminist message through violence

The year is 2003, and there's a red, yellow and black gloom that hovers over filmic America, glittering in its violence and blood. It’s "Kill Bill" by Quentin Tarantino — the millennia's most notable femme-fatale-turned-assassin film, a disturbing, technicolor portrait of feminism and bloodshed.Sep 7 2022
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So bad, they're good: These movies don't need to deserve awards to deserve your attention

The cinema we actively partake in demonstrates the multiple facets of our personalities as effectively as the people we associate ourselves with. These movies — whether as highbrow as “Citizen Kane,” as gothic and haunting as “Black Narcissus” or as self-indulgent as “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” — function as tools that fictionalize, and externalize, the internal.Feb 18 2022
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Film diversity in 'classics' have improved but not nearly enough for 2022

A generic search of classic movies on Google produces what seems like a replication of the same photocopied, white-male-directed films. Most of these films have solidified themselves as hallmarks of Americana cinema, but can we accept that part of what makes this American fabric is often problematic, exclusive and diminishing to marginalized communities?Jan 20 2022