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Cinema

A collection of 2 issues

Since When Could a Tiger Swim?

I didn’t start watching Der Tiger expecting it to turn into a meditation on genre mechanics, altered states, and what happens when stories keep running after meaning has quietly exited. I put it on assuming a familiar proposition: a German WWII tank film, competently made, tense, claustrophobic, grim. The

Discovering the Gray Machinery

A Real-Time Encounter with Sicario The Perfect Bait A decade after its release, I finally caught up with Denis Villeneuve's Sicario—baited by a social media clip of tactical violence so precisely executed that viewers shared it as a masterclass in cinematic gunfights. We clicked hungrily for the