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		<title>The Drama: Finally, a Big Swing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chase Padusniak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ari Aster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristoffer Borgli]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Drama]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Okay, it’s a modest swing. But Kristoffer Borgli’s new romantic tragicomedy The Drama (2026) actually tries something. Triumph all ye cherubim; sing with us, ye seraphim. It even manages to do topicality without saturating itself in the slime of present outrage. And it ain’t half bad to boot. The Drama is about the drama of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Good Samaritan: Who Is My Neighbor?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chase Padusniak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Dalrymple]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[St. Luke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Good Samaritan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Isaac and the Broken Enemy It’s an eternal question and a timely one: who is my neighbor? James Dalrymple’s The Good Samaritan (2025), now streaming on Angel, sets out to make this ancient concern legible to our modern moment. How do we relate to others? Whom should we be suspicious of? Should we be suspicious [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Project Hail Mary: Kids’ Movie?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chase Padusniak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Weir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blockbuster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Hail Mary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Gosling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spielberg]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My journey with Project Hail Mary (2026) began when a student asked if we could read the novel on which the film is based. I said “no,” because we were in the middle of The Tempest and had Mrs. Dalloway on the horizon. But color me surprised when I didn’t stop hearing about the movie [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happiness: Normal Monsters, Monsters Normal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chase Padusniak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Gazzara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lara Flynn Boyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Seymour Hoffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Todd Solondz]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Todd Solondz’ Happiness (1998) has a reputation. It’s bleak. It’s iconoclastic. It’s perverted. It’s simply “too much.” I couldn’t disagree more. As always, Solondz is offbeat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, for example, plays a heavy-breathing phone harasser who sticks things to his bedroom wall with the results of his telephonic adventures. There are sex offenders, sundae-eating [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Undertone: Scary, Scary Sound</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chase Padusniak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam DiMarco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Tuason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nina Kiri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Haunting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I finally got back to the theater this week and caught undertone (2025), a Canadian horror film with only two actors on screen. Several others, however, appear as disembodied voices. That’s the shtick here: can you do horror with just sound? Yes and no. Movies like The Haunting (1963) long ago demonstrated that things that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Quiet Scorsese</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chase Padusniak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Burstyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvey Keitel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kris Kristofferson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Southwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wanda]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Forgive the brevity of this one—my friend and podcast co-host Sam has been visiting for a couple days. Lots of fun means exhaustion on the other side. I did, however, recently get a chance to watch Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974). This is not mobster Scorsese, nor is it even him at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Killer of Sheep: Realism Amidst the Rubble</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chase Padusniak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blaxploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Burnett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry G. Sanders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neorealism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m a little late for Black History Month, but it’s never a bad time to watch or write about Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (1978). I mention Black History Month, because Burnett’s MFA thesis turned first feature is sometimes billed as a neorealistic response to Blaxploitation: Black Americans in the late 70s living as they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>La Jetée: Montage, Past and Future</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chase Padusniak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Marker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Bowie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Jetée]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry Gilliam]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What more can be said of Chris Marker’s groundbreaking “photo-novel,” La Jetée (1962)? Its subject matter, concerning a man experimentally sent into the past and future after World War III, influenced William Gibson, the father of cyberpunk. Its heartrate-raising editing inspired Terry Gilliam. David Bowie references it in a music video. No brief blogpost from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>All I Desire: Midwestern Sirk</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chase Padusniak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas Sirk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fassbinder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melodrama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soap Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Todd Haynes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Douglas Sirk has been called both the king of the 50s “women’s weepies” and a master of social commentary. The two, in fact, go together. Or at least did in his case. As a fan of R.W. Fassbinder and Todd Haynes, Sirk’s greatest heirs, I’ve made it my mission to explore his lush, technicolor oeuvre. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Adjuster: Superhero for the End of History</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chase Padusniak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arsinée Khanjian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atom Egoyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[B-Movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elias Koteas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Superhero]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The poster for Atom Egoyan’s The Adjuster (1991) does and does not suggest pulpiness. Elias Koteas stands perpendicular to the frame, drawing taut an arrow, prepared to let it fly out the window of his suburban home. A woman’s legs jut forth from near the viewer’s vantage point. Koteas wears just a towel wrapped around [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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