Thursday, March 20, 2025

Manish Mathur

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Op-Ed: Watching The Before Trilogy in Reverse (and Other Musings On Its 30th Anniversary) 

There’s no movie trilogy out there quite like Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy. From 1995 to 2013, Linklater and his collaborators Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy traced the relationship between Jesse and Celine...

‘Challengers’: The Tragedy of Cat Zimmerman

Note: This piece contains major plot spoilers for Challengers The most widely seen shot in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers is Zendaya on a hotel room bed, flanked by her co-stars Mike Faist and Josh...

Parallel Creators: Pedro Almodóvar and Penelope Cruz

With his latest release Parallel Mothers, Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar delivers a truly exceptional political melodrama starring his frequent collaborator, Penelope Cruz. This is Cruz’s fifth starring role with Almodóvar (alongside two...

Op-ed: 3 years ago, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Brought Failure to the MCU

“Oh, God…” Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) laments the loss and devastation at the end of the Battle of Wakanda, minutes after Thanos (Josh Brolin) snaps his fingers and obliterates half the universe. The...

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