All posts by Mojib
The Greatest Movies of All Time: Millennium Mambo
Millennium Mambo (2001) was the first Hou Hsiao-Hsien film I ever saw. I was 20 and I saw it in Cannes when I was just starting to write about film.
This was before I worked on Cahiers du Cinéma. I couldn’t really write properly and I was trying to learn. I w...
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The Greatest Movies of All Time: Ghost World
It might not be one of the best movies of all time. But Enid is a superhero like no other. So this is how Ghost World's rebellious protagonist became one of cinema's great non-conformists.
Not all heroes wear capes, or so the social media idiom tells ...
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Greta Gerwig and why Lady Bird is worth the HD wait
The Lady Bird director espouses filmmaking as a team game and writing scripts inspired by personal memory. And while her movie might have leaked as a DVD screener, it is worth a BluRay purchase or buying a digital HD download. Here's why.
It maybe was...
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Black Panther’s Danai Gurira
The playwright and star of TV’s The Waking Dead is set to go nuclear in Marvel’s Black Panther.
It’s been 25 years in the making, but Black Panther looks worth the wait. Directed by Fruitvale Station and Creed wunderkind Ryan Coogler and featuring a...
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