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Time Travel 101 with Shifter – The Cinematic Schematic #8
August 2, 2018

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In this month’s edition of The Cinematic Schematic, we’re stepping back in time to discuss our very favorite time travel movies in order to protect the new movies being made in the present day! The minds behind Shifter (The Cinematropolis co-founders), Jacob and Zachary Burns, join us to…

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout Is the Best Kind of Summer Blockbuster Experience – The Cinematic Schematic
July 26, 2018

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The Cinematic Schematic has your summer filmgoing needs covered with a special bonus conversation reviewing one of our most anticipated movies of the summer, Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the sixth entry in the Mission: Impossible film franchise starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, and the…

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David Lowery’s A Ghost Story: The Life of a Space
July 18, 2018

We are no more eternal than our own footprints.

A spectral romance melded into a reflection upon mortality, David Lowrey’s A Ghost Story conjures a cosmic journey within a few hundred square feet. The film garnered acclaim (and criticism) for its statuesque illustration of grief, frustration, and…

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Time Enough for Love in Satoshi Kon’s ‘Millennium Actress’
July 16, 2018

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. – Charles Caleb Colton

It begins at the end.

A woman, dressed in a space suit, hurries toward the entry…

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Flights of Fancy: Somewhere in Time and the Joys of Fantastical Time Travel
July 11, 2018

To celebrate the recent launch of Planet Thunder Productions’ Indie Go Go fundraiser for their new time travel film, SHIFTER, The Cinematropolis will spend the month looking at time-travel films, starting with this edition of Underexposed.

When most people think of time travel, images of technological inventions, of…

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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: A Cry for Empathy in an Era of Intolerance
July 5, 2018

In recent weeks, the news of children being ripped from their parents as they cross the US border in attempt to seek asylum spread across the news and social media. I was bombarded with devastating images and stories of this human rights crisis unfolding right in my…

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