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The Long Take: Charlie's Courage
Ten Years On, Charlie Hebdo and their free speech deserves to be defended
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Adrian Nguyen
My Favorite Pieces I wrote in 2024
From Australia to free speech to the male gaze to America
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The State of 2024
Recounting the best films, TV and music that was released that year.
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A Year End Bash With Matt Labash
2024 gave us many questions: the return of Trump, podcasts, masculinity and Raygun. Labash answers them all.
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A Q&A with a Trump supporting filmmaker
An interview with Jay Karales, aka Lowres Wunderbred, on why he supports Trump and how it affects the way he sees movies.
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The Long Take: Obamacore was Cringe
How the era's overconfidence radicalized our tastemakers.
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The Long Take: The Missing Days of Summer
15 years later, my relationship with (500) Days of Summer is about as messy as the movie.
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The Long Take - My Conflicting Thoughts on The Bear
Why vibes aren't enough to carry a show.
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The Long Take: The Recent State of the Sydney Film Festival (2024)
Reviews of what I chose to watch at Australia's biggest film festival, which includes a lot of good efforts and a very bad one.
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The Long Take: Shattered Glass, 26 and 21 years later.
Revisiting one of journalism’s biggest fabrication scandals and the movie that's based on it.
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The Long Take: Civil War and the Ideals of Apolitical Art
Maybe The Real Civil War Was the Friends We Made Along the Way
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The Long Take: The Fabulous Fashion of Michael Mann’s Movies
How fashion matters at the movies.
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The Long Take: Hayao Miyazaki's War
How The Boy and the Heron tells the story of anime's wartime roots, as well as Miyazaki's own experiences.
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My Favorite Things of 2023
From film to TV to anime to... anything I loved this year.
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