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Cinematropolis Podcast Featured The Cinematic Schematic
‘Street Fighter’ Is a Big, Silly, Confused 90s Throwback
October 21, 2026

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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
October 15, 2026

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โ€˜The Social Reckoningโ€™ Is Admirable and Out of Touch
October 14, 2026

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    Persepolis Cultivates Strength amid Oppression and Indifference

    March 11, 2019
    Marjane Satrapi examines two versions of herself in Persepolis

    It’s fear that makes us lose our conscience. It’s also what transforms us into cowards.

    Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

    Deep in a apartment during the fundamentalist rise of post-revolution Iran, a young woman headbangs to Iron Maiden.

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    A Month Celebrating Cinema’s Greatest Super-Heroines

    March 4, 2019
    super-heroines

    In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I’m saying complexity. I’m not saying goody-two-shoes, everything’s okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I…

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    Kubo and the Two Strings Illuminates the Power of Stop-Motion Storytelling

    February 27, 2019
    Beetle monkey and Kubo in Kubo and the Two Strings from Laika.

    If you must blink, do it now. Pay careful attention to everything you see, no matter how unusual it may seem. If you look away, even for an instant, then our hero will surely perish. It’s time to follow my own path. My name is…

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    Kyle William Roberts Talks the Evolution of His Stop-motion Dreams

    February 26, 2019
    Kyle William Roberts alongside the work of Ray Harryhausen and Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Kyle William Roberts is the director of The Posthuman Project, The Grave, and the mind behind Reckless Abandonment…

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    A Brief History of Stop-Motion Animation

    February 21, 2019
    A selection of stop-motion films including King Kong, Jason and the Argonauts, Isle of Dogs, and The Nightmare Before Christmas

    Stop-motion animation has been around nearly as long as the art of filmmaking itself, and its techniques have continued to evolve from its humble beginnings up to the present day. 

    What follows is not a comprehensive history of the art form, but rather a…

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    2019 Oscar Predictions – The Cinematic Schematic #11

    February 20, 2019
    2019 Oscar Predictions
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    It’s time to get out your sample 2019 Oscar ballot and start making prediction notes for this Sunday night’s big show! Fortunately, we’ve got just the nominee breakdown you need to put together a winning list on the latest episode of The Cinematic Schematic.

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    Sound Trek: 2019 Best Original Score Oscar Nominee Special

    February 18, 2019
    2019 Best Original Score
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    While we continue our month looking at stop-motion films, we can’t help but stop and take a closer look at the tumultuous and oftentimes controversial 2019 Oscars. In part one of our two-part The Cinematic Schematic 2019 Oscar special, Sound…

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    Brick by Brick: The Lego Movie 2 Champions Growth through Reconciliation

    February 14, 2019
    Chris Pratt stars as Emmet in the Lego Movie 2

    Just as Lego can be the means to build something extraordinary, so too can the toys be shattered in an instance. A fitting analogy for the height of joy and the destructive depths of spite. They are…

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    The LEGO Movie Playfully Deconstructs Dystopia

    February 8, 2019
    Phil Lord and Chris Miller's The Lego Movie featuring Chris Pratt and Elizabeth Banks

    There are few punchlines with the same bite as an authoritarian dystopia. It’s effectiveness grows tenfold when you mix in Batman.

    One of the most effective ways to disengage the very real notions of a society devoid of any agency is to laugh…

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    A Month Celebrating the Acheivement of Stop-Motion Film

    February 4, 2019
    Stop-Motion

    We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

    Nick Park

    One moment of Ovid’s

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