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I am someone who loves watching films. I love the classic era, the modern era, and everything in between. I am also someone who loves celebrity culture and is a fan of different actors. However, when I look back into the classic era in Hollywood, it is dominated by white faces. Yes, I know the culture and the times are different but contrary to popular belief, there were quite a few people of color celebrities back in the day; these pioneers should get re-evaluated and re-discovered. It would be inspiring to young people of color to know about the hard working people who blazed the trail before them…

Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 masterpiece The Phantom Thread is an enigmatic puzzle that evolves with each subsequent viewing. A story of romance that hides something ominous under its surface. A tale of mystery, filled to the brim with restrained comedy.

In his final performance. . .

When I was a kid, my buddy Timmy Murch had the Godzilla Shogun Warriors Toy. It was pretty cool. But it wasn’t as cool as the oversized Boba Fett action figure he had and when we played in his backyard I always wanted to battle as Boba Fett…

There have been many Hitchcock homages: David Fincher’s Panic Room, Francois Truffaut’s Don’t Shoot the Piano Player, Steven Spielberg’s Duel/Jaws/Jurassic Park (re-workings in a way of The Birds), even Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Phantom Thread (which is a kind of ingenuous re-working of Rebecca). All of them dynamite. All of them also supreme examples of their own filmmakers’ voice/art.

But for this programmer’s money, the only filmmakers who actually managed to out-Hitchcock Hitchcock at his own game are director Stanley Donen and writer Peter Stone when they collaborated to make 1963’s Charade starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.

Charade follows…

I think it’s time to bring Bollywood Club to Secret Movie Club! Two great clubs that go great together.

Once a month, my friend Amber, who is a Bollywood fan, carefully curates a film for us Bollywood newbies to enjoy. So far, after half a year or so, we are big fans of Shah Rukh Khan (SRK), who has been one of the biggest stars of Bollywood for the past thirty years.

In Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (which translated from the Hindi as basically “The good hearted will take the Bride”), he is…

For this week, I decided to compare the original Saved by the Bell to the recent reboot. I always wanted to watch the show with the revival of the ‘90s culture. For this battle, I am going to be watching the pilot (the first episode) for both. I am going to be comparing the plot, how society reflects what is being shown, along with how I feel about it.

The original is…

When Fritz Lang made M in 1930-1931 just outside of Berlin, he must have already begun to sense his days in Germany were numbered…

In the year 2000, my friend Mo was going to see the Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. We chatted about the show, and she mentioned how famously terrible Ted Heely is in the movie. After she saw it, I asked. "How was it?" "Bring back Ted Heely."

When I saw that same production, my takeaway was…

I finally decided to watch P-Valley after seeing the trailer for the upcoming movie Zola (I am so excited for that movie, you don’t understand). Something about content involving strippers is just *chef’s kiss*. I think the reason why I love them is because they represent who I want to be: confident, strong, talented and beautiful.

This show revolves around stripper culture. The main character, “Autumn Night”

The color that arrives on earth by way of meteorite in Lovecraft's 1927 short story isn't just one color, but described to be a spectrum of colors. Colors that infuse themselves into the very chemical makeup of life, altering it, contorting it into something alien. A spectrum of color can be achieved by fracturing light into its individual attributes. A process that Alex Garland's 2018 sci-fi horror Annihilation explores…