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    The Visit Explores Separation and Forgiveness

    January 30, 2019
    The least unassuming grandparents of The Visit from M. Night Shyamalan

    Society often views anger as an unacceptable emotion, and people often process it as something else — depression, apprehension, self-loathing. Experiences that result in anger also dilute the desire to try something new, particularly relationships. M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit shows from the first person perspective two…

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    Unbreakable and Split Examine Shyamalan’s Fascination with the Tangibility of Myth

    January 17, 2019
    Bruce Willis and James McAvoy in iconic moments from Unbreakable and Split by M. Night Shyamalan

    This part won’t be like a comic book. Real life doesn’t fit into little boxes that were drawn for it.

    Elijah Price, Unbreakable

    In 2002, Sam Raimi made the superhero blockbuster feasible; in 2008,…

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    The Village Dissects the Consequence of Evasive Belief

    January 16, 2019
    Bryce Dallas Howard as Ivy in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village

    You may run from sorrow, as we have. Sorrow will find you.

    August Nicholson

    In the wake of the…

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    Sound Trek Composer Spotlight: Dankmus

    January 15, 2019
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    Featured Lists

    Jacob Leighton Burns: Shyamalan Pairings

    January 9, 2019
    Jacob Leighton Burns with M. Night Shyamalan's The Village and Robert Eggers The Witch

    Jacob Leighton Burns is the director of the awarding-winning and reality-warping Electric Nostalgia, as well as the upcoming time-travel horror film, Shifter. Lauded for his ability to contort…

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    Wide Awake: Shyamalan’s First and Unexpected Family Feature

    January 7, 2019
    Rosie O'Donnell "stars" in M. Night Shyamalan's early film, Wide Awake.

    Ask anyone on the street (or even the most knowledgeable of film nerds) to name M. Night Shyamalan‘s first film, and they will undoubtedly and unequivocally tell you it’s

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    Signs: The Power of Coincidences, Faith and Belief

    January 4, 2019
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    See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, that sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky? Or, look at the question this way: Is it possible that there are…

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    The Month of the M. Night Shyamalan Comeback

    January 3, 2019
    M Night Shyamalan makes a cameo appearance in Signs starring Mel Gibson

    Art is the ability to convey that we are not alone. When I sit down next to you in a movie theater, we get to share each other’s point of view. We become part of a collective soul. That’s the magic in the movies.

    M. Night Shyamalan

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    The Cinematropolis Staff Picks: The Top 5 Films of 2018

    December 31, 2018
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    With the year coming to a close, five members of the Cinematropolis team elaborate on their picks for the top 5 Films of 2018.

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    Let’s Not Forget John Huston

    December 11, 2018
    John Huston

      Fat City is a bleak but compassionate look at love, boxing, and alcoholism through the eyes of the lower class residents of Stockton, California in the 1960’s. Its material derives…

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