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Film Review: Avatar: The Way of Water Is Peak Immersive Filmmaking

Will a post-pandemic audience be invested in a story from 13 years ago and, furthermore, devote three hours of their time for it?
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“You know my favorite thing about the movie is, like, it feels like a movie. It feels like, a real, like, go-to-the-theater film movie.” That vibey-ass Harry Styles press junket quote bounced around my brain while watching Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron’s much-anticipated follow-up to the highest-grossing movie of all time. The Way […]

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The Future of Coffee Looks Psychedelic 🍄 ☕️

We tried a psilocybin-infused coffee co-created by Stumptown Coffee founder Duane Sorenson
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[The following was originally published in our sister publication, The Stranger, in Seattle.—eds] On a recent cold and wet weekday morning, I decided to do my day’s writing on the sheltered patio of a local cafe. Tea in hand, I opened my laptop and settled into work. But instead of writing, my mind began to […]

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Film Review: Riotsville, U.S.A. Is a Surreal History Lesson on the Militarization of the US Police

Archival footage shows racism was at the core of how law enforcement responds to riots today.
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Sierra Pettengill’s Riotsville, U.S.A. is a surreal examination of the militarization of the United States police force as a response to the class and social consciousness gained by Black and other marginalized communities in the late 1960s.  The documentary situates itself in a fake town called Riotsville, which was constructed by the federal government on US […]

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Film Review: Regina Hall Is Divine in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

She’s a genius.
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This review originally ran as part of our sister paper The Stranger‘s 2022 Sundance Film Festival coverage.  Adamma and Adanne Ebo’s Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. is a riotous skewering of Southern megachurch culture in all its excesses, exploitations, and contradictions. Shot in a Guestian mockumentary style, the film switches between hilarious vignettes and high-emotion […]

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It Doesn’t Matter if House of Gucci Is Good or Bad—We’re Here for Gaga

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Mother Monster ate. Fabio Lovino/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci is ridiculous, but it’s one helluva good time. For nearly three hours, Scott subjects viewers to a probably offensive array of “Italian” accents (e.g. “Never confuse shit with choco-lato”), sex in sweaty offices, Jared Leto chewing the absolute fuck out of the scenery while doing […]

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