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Gretchen Felker-Martin Jan 7, 2022. 5 minute read

Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Top 10 Movies of 2021

10. The Green Knight David Lowery’s The Green Knight tells a thoroughly medieval story of masculine weakness and inadequacy first and foremost by hurling the aesthetics of the period out the nearest window. Solar crowns and fractal dresses, camera obscuras burning pinhole likenesses into sheets of lead, architecture equal parts…

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Gretchen Felker-Martin Jul 1, 2021. 2 minute read

‘Censor’ Review: A Cut Above

“If it’s the nation’s sanity they’re worried about, why don’t they stop slashing social services?” film censor Anne (Clare Perkins) mutters during a meeting on revised standards handed down by the Thatcher administration. It’s a biting line, and that it’s delivered by the film’s only black woman can hardly be…

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