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‘The Odyssey’ Review: Is Christopher Nolan’s Epic Worth the Hype?
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‘Evil Dead Burn’ Joins Triumphantly Traumatizing 2026 Summer Horror Lineup
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‘Supergirl’ Doesn’t Fly High Enough to Sell Audiences on the DCU
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‘Disclosure Day’ Brings Spielberg’s Lifelong Alien Obsession Full Circle
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    Remember Your Name: The Birth of Agency in ‘Spirited Away’

    May 10, 2018
    Spirited Away

    For the past two decades, the works of Hayao Miyazaki have rested upon the upper echelons of the most successful anime films of all time.  Until the release of Your Name in 2016, Ponyo, Howl’s Moving Castle and most notably, the Oscar-winning Spirited Away remained the highest-grossing films of…

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    Dog Bites Leash: The Deconstruction and Persistence of Hierarchy in ‘Isle of Dogs’

    April 5, 2018
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    In 2014, Kornél Mundruczó’s White God toyed with the idea of a canine uprising. Akin to the chaos of societal collapse, the dogs’ reign in the film yielded a social mulligan of sorts the film’s setting, Budapest. Deprived of purpose and deemed pests, the hounds were…

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    Cinematropolis Podcast Featured The Cinematic Schematic

    Ready Player March: An Evening with K.W. Jeter – The Cinematic Schematic #5

    March 28, 2018
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    2:05 – ‘Sound Trek’ with Alexandra Bohannon – The best of Spielberg directed/produced scores

    56:24 – A talk with K.W. Jeter, author of the Blade Runner novel sequels.

    The Cinematic Schematic closes out our March theme by celebrating the road to Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One with a special episode…

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    Underexposed: Steven Spielberg’s Anti-Blockbuster ‘The Sugarland Express’

    March 26, 2018
    Sugarland Express

    Steven Spielberg is a household name today. Film nerds can tell you the director for just about any movie ever released, but even the most casual of theatergoers, who might otherwise fumble when attempting to tell you who Ingmar Bergman or Jim Jarmusch is, knows Spielberg and his work….

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    The Little Automaton: Defining Love in Steven Spielberg’s ‘A.I.’

    March 19, 2018
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    No stranger to family drama, Steven Spielberg consistently finds a way to inject the subject into work regardless of drama. One of the most important scenes of Jaws, for instance, lacks any presence of the titular predator, instead honing in on Martin Brody and his youngest son at the…

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    A QUIET PLACE: JOHN KRASINSKI’S HORROR DEBUT DELIVERS SMART SILENT THRILLS – SXSW 2018

    March 15, 2018
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    John Krasinski is a widely admired filmmaker, largely due to his work as Jim Halpert on The Office. He’s written/directed/ produced a couple of endearing films in the past, but he is hardly known as a storyteller with an expertise in the horror genre. That will all change with…

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    2018 Oscar Predictions: Caleb’s Picks

    March 3, 2018
    2018 Oscar Predictions

    It’s that time of the year again when film lovers from across the globe gather around their TV screens to watch the Academy Awards. For cinephiles and film nerds this is as close as we get to watching our teams go to the Super Bowl or World Series. The…

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    Get Out: A Thrilling Warning Against White Liberalism Body Snatching

    February 27, 2018

    Most viewers frequent the multiplex to be entertained, escaping the daily woes of their lives. Others attend the multiplex to be challenged, to expand the limited perimeters of their life perspective. But every now and then, a film encompasses both of these qualities, shaking audiences to their core in…

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    Mask of the Phantasm: When Opposite-Numbers Attract

    February 21, 2018
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    One of the things I most appreciate about the superhero aesthetic is its ability to take any other genre’s elements and turn them up to eleven. When it comes to the romance genre, one of the oldest adages is “opposites attract.” But what kind of twisted…

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    Black Panther: A Fresh Marvel Spectacle Charged with Deeper Ambitions

    February 16, 2018
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    The Cinematic Schematic returns with a roundtable review and breakdown of Marvel Studios newest film, Black Panther. Today’s panel consists of The Cinematropolis film critic and Cinematic Schematic host Caleb Masters, the writer/director of You People, Laron Chapman, and first-time guest Joshua Unruh from Pulp Diction Productions.

    In this discussion, we…

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