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2026-04-06T23:14:34-04:00

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The Good Samaritan: Who Is My Neighbor?

Last updated on: April 6, 2026 at 11:14 pm By Chase Padusniak

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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 of anyone? Writer-director Dalrymple takes the terse outline of Jesus’ parable and fills in the gaps in character and personal relationships. Here, there is a... Read more

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2026-04-02T14:36:40-04:00

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Project Hail Mary: Kids’ Movie?

Last updated on: April 2, 2026 at 2:36 pm By Chase Padusniak

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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 adaptation only a couple months later. And so, I watched it. The all-ages crowd loved it. Laughs, tears—you name it. I could tell I was... Read more

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2026-03-29T17:37:27-04:00

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Happiness: Normal Monsters, Monsters Normal

Last updated on: March 29, 2026 at 5:37 pm By Chase Padusniak

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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 murderers, and Russian cabby sex pests. Dads buy magazines for kids for themselves. This is, again, Todd Solondz. But the movie is, dare I say,... Read more

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2026-03-20T17:01:20-04:00

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Undertone: Scary, Scary Sound

Last updated on: March 20, 2026 at 5:01 pm By Chase Padusniak

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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 go bump in the night could terrify audiences. The trouble is that the scares mean little without an enticing plot. And undertone, which follows a... Read more

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2026-03-15T18:01:21-04:00

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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Quiet Scorsese

Last updated on: March 15, 2026 at 6:01 pm By Chase Padusniak

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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 work in New York or its suburbs. Alice is more like Wanda (1970) or A Woman Under the Influence (1974). The film is quiet, even... Read more

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2026-03-08T20:13:15-04:00

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Killer of Sheep: Realism Amidst the Rubble

Last updated on: March 8, 2026 at 8:13 pm By Chase Padusniak

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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 actually did. On that front, Burnett’s film succeeds. It presents normal, working-class people trying to survive in rubble-filled LA. Children play amidst clods of dirt,... Read more

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2026-02-24T16:28:18-04:00

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La Jetée: Montage, Past and Future

Last updated on: February 24, 2026 at 4:28 pm By Chase Padusniak

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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 me can hope to add to the vast pile of interpretations it has received nor speak to the influence it has had. I suppose I’m... Read more

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2026-02-21T12:38:33-04:00

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All I Desire: Midwestern Sirk

Last updated on: February 21, 2026 at 12:38 pm By Chase Padusniak

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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. The time has come to plunge into his earlier Hollywood work—the black-and-white melodramas. Thus, I found my way to All I Desire (1953), the story... Read more

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2026-02-15T09:35:41-04:00

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The Adjuster: Superhero for the End of History

Last updated on: February 15, 2026 at 9:35 am By Chase Padusniak

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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 his waist. Presumably, if the title itself didn’t evoke “the Crow” or the B-movie antics of 50s fare like The Fly (1958) and The Blob... Read more

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2026-02-07T18:04:54-04:00

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eXistenZ: Another Day in 2026

Last updated on: February 7, 2026 at 6:04 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Another week, another Cronenberg. This time we have his Y2K dive into the wonderful world of video games. Of course, he does it in his way: people play games with fleshy controllers connected to them via “bioports” embedded in their spines. But, as usual, he trains his eye on the fundamentally human, the tangible—in a word, the real. The core of the film, which comes with a dizzying bevy of twists and turns I won’t reveal here, is Allegra Geller... Read more

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