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‘Street Fighter’ Is a Big, Silly, Confused 90s Throwback
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‘Wildwood’ Is the Film LAIKA Was Built to Make
October 20, 2026

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‘You Can See Everything’ Is the Documentary of the Decade
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    Alex Garland And Toxic Masculinity, From ’28 Days Later’ To ‘Men’

    May 23, 2022
    Alex Garland

    Men – the mystifying 2022 film from writer-director Alex Garland and studio A24 – brings to mind the social media hashtag #YesAllWomen, which arose in conjunction with the #MeToo movement and ushered into the online public discourse story after story of women suffering in myriad ways under…

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    2022 deadCenter Film Festival: What to Watch and How To Attend

    May 8, 2022
    2022 deadCenter

    The 2022 deadCenter Film Festival has released its full lineup of movies for this year’s event and it includes a robust lineup of short films, documentaries, and Oklahoma feature films. This year’s fully in-person festival kicks off on Thursday, June 9th at 6 PM CST with…

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    The Northman Weaves a Tapestry of Unending Violence

    April 28, 2022
    Alexander Skarsgard as Amleth in The Northman from Robert Eggers

    From 2015’s The Witch and his 2019 follow-up, The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers reminds us that tradition and identity rarely exist in harmony, even across centuries. With The Northman, the director applies…

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    The Northman – The Cinematic Schematic Review

    April 20, 2022
    Northman
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    Following his one-two punch in elevated psychological horror with The Witch(2016) and The Lighthouse(2019), up-and-coming indie auteur Robert Eggers is back with a new Norse epic unlike any we’ve seen on the big screen in recent years, The Northman. In the newest episode of The Cinematic…

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    Everything Everywhere All At Once – The Cinematic Schematic Review

    April 14, 2022
    Everything Everywhere All At Once
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    In today’s episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we dive deep into The Daniels (that’s
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) wildly ambitious multiverse(move over Dr. Strange) to explore themes of love, balance, regret, and so much more through some of the most bizarre filmmaking you’ve…

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    Oscar Predictions 2022 for The 94th Academy Awards – The Cinematic Schematic

    March 23, 2022
    Oscar Predictions
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    In the newest episode of The Cinematic Schematic, hosts Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman return to continue the annual Oscar predictions episode for our fourth year.

    Let’s admit it. The Academy has struggled to stay relevant in the mainstream for at least…

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    The Batman – The Cinematic Schematic Review

    March 10, 2022
    The Batman
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    “This isn’t the podcast you deserve, but it is the one you need right now.” – Alfred Pennyworth in some modern iteration of Batman, probably.

    The Cinematic Schematic returns in our March edition to take a dive deep into Gotham’s criminal underbelly to…

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    The Batman Investigates the Plight of a Troubled Icon

    March 9, 2022
    Robert Pattinson stars in The Batman from director Matt Reeves

    By now, we accept Batman for what he is: an idea. An idea almost inseparable from whoever carries the mantle. Bruce Wayne has been a nonchalant playboy, a vengeful orphan, a daring sleuth and even a ninja, yet all of them eventually reach…

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    Charlie Kaufman Paints Three Portraits of Love

    February 14, 2022
    Three films from the mind of Charlie Kaufman

    Three Charlie Kaufman characters rest their foreheads against a window. One feels increasingly hollow as she recites a poem she knows she didn’t write on the way to meet her boyfriend’s parents for the first time. The other replays the letter of an…

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    Scream(2022) – The Cinematic Schematic Review

    February 2, 2022
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    Hello Sidney…we’re home. In this episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we’re rejoined by recurring guests Laron Chapman, Zachary Burns, and Brock Lay to follow our Scream retrospective discussion up with a review of the newest entry in the series, Scream (2022), AKA Scream 5 AKA…

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