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Death to Mainstream Cinema: Cecil B. Demented and the Franchise Era

As the 2020s push on, watching Cecil B. Demented could be enough to radicalize any moviegoer against mainstream cinema.

7 min readDec 30, 2023

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A man with bleached blond hair in a tuxedo points a gun in a studio. He shouts, ‘Power to the people who punish bad cinema!’

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Life Is But a Dream: The American Dream as Portrayed in A Streetcar Named Desire

The American Dream — the idea that anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, take things into their own hands to become successful…

8 min readNov 20, 2022

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A black and white still of Stanley angrily grabbing Blanche’s arm, confronting her about what happened to Belle Reve while she is putting on perfume.

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Bull in a China Shop: The Fragile Masculinity of Jake LaMotta

What is a man to do when he has everything and it’s still not enough?

6 min readJul 19, 2022

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A black and white still of Robert De Niro leaning against a boxing ring. He’s wearing boxing gloves and shorts and has a leopard print cape over his shoulders.

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GOT7 Is Booked and Busy

It’s been a little over a year since GOT7 left their agency JYPE, and the multi-talented K-Pop group has been busier than ever.

7 min readMar 25, 2022

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Members of the K-Pop group GOT7 stand in front of a light blue background in dark to neutral shade suits.

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The Yassification of True Crime

It’s everywhere. Podcasts, YouTube channels, even cable TV shows — true crime. But does the genre’s recent rise in popularity do any good?

10 min readDec 10, 2021

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A colorful collage of YouTube thumbnails, TikTok videos and podcast descriptions from true crime content creators.

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In Defense of Kay Corleone

An in-depth analysis of The Godfather’s Kay Corleone, a woman just as complex as her mafia boss husband, yet widely vilified for being…

10 min readNov 25, 2021

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Diane Keaton as Kay Corleone in The Godfather 1972. She is wearing a straw sunhat and red and white polka-dot dress as she converses with Michael at his sister Connie’s wedding.

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Buffaloed Pulls Back the Curtain on the Unregulated Debt Collection Industry

Peg Dahl (Zooey Deutch) is nothing less than a hustler, a smartly dressed #girlboss before it was all over t-shirts and coffee mugs on…

7 min readSep 24, 2021

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Zooey Deutch as Peg stares into the camera with wide eyes as she holds a stack of $100 bills.

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Reflections in a Switchblade Knife: Looking Back on Sal Mineo’s Bold Bisexuality

In the decade following the end of the Second World War, a new type of American emerged from the shining new suburbs full of mass-market…

10 min readJun 28, 2021

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A black and white still of Sal Mineo as Lawrence Sherman in the 1965 film Who Killed Teddy Bear? The screen is dark, except for his face which is illuminated by a match he is using to light a cigarette in his mouth.

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nicolesanacore

26 | CLT | Martin Scorsese Apologist | Writer for Ghouls Magazine | she/her | All opinions expressed on this account are my own

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