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For cable networks, holiday movies are the gift that keeps on giving

Even Ebenezer Scrooge might have been impressed with how TV networks are profiting from holiday movies.Along with early displays...

Yvonne Villarreal

Film Special Features

Restored James Baldwin documentary timely as ever

When I sat down last week to watch “James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket” (in a digitally restored version of the...

Film Movie Reviews

Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara show us what love can do in Carol

It’s hard to imagine a movie season without Cate Blanchett sweeping in and enchanting us with her unholy level of class,...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

Director Deniz Gamze Erguven and her five actresses on sisterhood and hope in Mustang

The breath of sisterhood is impenetrable. It is something otherworldly, yet completely of the soil, as we pop up alongside our...

Cooper Copeland

Film Special Features

How a movie’s food makes it to the screen

In some movies — a lot of movies, actually — if you see a character eating ice cream, the actor is really licking...

Daniel Neman - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Film Interviews

Dir. Lisa Immordino Vreeland on courage in Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

To say that she saved modern art would not be hyperbolic. When Peggy Guggenheim, daughter to tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim, who...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Trumbo and The Hollywood Ten remind us to fight against the odds

The legacy of Hollywood is something rather unquantifiable. We often forget how great the film industry’s impact has on...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Gaspar Noe's Love ain't for everyone, and that's okay

Ah, love. It’s in the air. We all love to talk about it, dream about it, hope for it, or, if you happen to be on the latter...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Sarah Silverman takes on too much tragedy in I Smile Back

As a young woman with an immense amount of possibility lying at my feet, the chase of the American Dream terrifies me. Perhaps...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Truth: a newsroom drama packed with little punch

Who do you trust when you turn on the news? The answer is obvious; it’s the people telling you about the latest scandal,...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Finders Keepers gives mystery meat a whole new twist

Finders Keepers is the story of Shannon Whisnant, an entrepreneur, who purchases the contents of an unpaid storage unit and makes...

Joy Calisoff

Film Movie Reviews

Ridley Scott’s most welcome return to form with The Martian

Where to begin, where to begin? It’s hard to know where to begin, because it seems, just in the past five years, my brain...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

Director Giulio Ricciarelli gives power to truth in Labyrinth of Lies

You and me, we know a lot about the Holocaust—or at least we think we do. Through innumerable accounts via memoirs, textbooks,...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution reminds us we have a long way to go

It’s hard to decipher where history ends and where the present begins. Movements, coups, protests, and revolutions come...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Dir. François Ozon faces hard truths of desire in The New Girlfriend

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us, but we can't strike them all by ourselves.” - Laura Esquivel,...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Going back to school with zombies and Cooties

If you’re a kid in school, you probably have a teacher who you wouldn’t mind tearing limb from limb and using their...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Peace Officer: when police wage war against America

It’s a matter of us versus them, or at least that’s what we’ve grown accustomed to feeling and believing when...

Cooper Copeland

Film Special Features

Campus Circle's Fall Film Guide

After this summer at the movies, one riddled with a few surprises, even fewer mind-blowing blockbusters, and a couple of sweetheart...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Legend becomes villain in Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

We all think we know the man called Steve Jobs. We know he helmed the creation of a world-changing technology. We know he was...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Steak (R)evolution: an important, yet redundant lesson about our food culture

In the middle of the food renaissance, where ideas of trends, dieting, and nutritional movements have gone on to shape our collective...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Josh Lucas and The Mend push mumblecore in the right direction

There’s something about first-time directors that gives them an insatiable amount of fortitude. Perhaps it’s just...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

Dir. Paul Weitz, Lily Tomlin and Sam Elliot discuss the hilarious anger of Grandma

Back in 1999, director Paul Weitz was unsure about the reception of his debut film, a little raunchy comedy called American Pie....

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

American Ultra: summer's best stoner surprise

I will be the first to admit, I wanted to hate American Ultra with all of my being. Call it a willful stubbornness, mainly based...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Little spirit to be found in 80s drama Ten Thousand Saints

For innumerable reasons, the coming-of-age tale is one we can all instinctively connect with. Even if the specifics are somewhat...

Cooper Copeland

Film Blog

Fear, Inc. commences production in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6, 2015 – Lone Suspect announces that production will commence today in Los Angeles on its latest feature...

Campus Circle Staff

Film Movie Reviews

The stars shine in the dull story of Southpaw

The story of the underdog never seems to go out of style… or at least, people like to think so. It’s a concept that...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

A LEGO Brickumentary: the amazing legacy of the world's favorite toy

Last year, with the crazy awesomeness that was The LEGO Movie, all of us who had long ago put our bins of the tiny little building...

Cooper Copeland

Film TV Time

Emmy nominations’ biggest snubs and surprises: Amy Schumer, ‘Empire,’ ‘The Americans,’ and more

Did this year’s Emmy nods maddeningly snub our favorites? Of course! (Sorry, The Americans.) But this year’s list...

Campus Circle Staff

Film Movie Reviews

Woody Allen's Irrational Man falls short of his genius but still entertains

By now, we are all probably familiar with the ways of Woody Allen. Over the past half century, the man has been creating some...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Escaping life’s harsh realities in Strangerland

As adolescents, we’re encouraged to explore—to investigate and examine different people, places and variations of our own identities....

Dashel Pierson Plesa