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Aug 21, 2024 ∙ 7 min
Festival Roundup | IFF Boston 2024
Rebecca Radillo breaks down the five films she saw at IFF Boston 2024.
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Dec 1, 2023 ∙ 9 min
Isolation, Obsession, and Frankenstein: Why I’m a Frankensnob
Rebecca Radillo examines her love for Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' and the spectrum of its many film adaptations.
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Oct 27, 2023 ∙ 8 min
A Love Letter to The Conjuring: Finding Representation in the Strangest Places
Rebecca Radillo examines the unconventional faith-based representation in the Conjuring franchise.
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Jun 30, 2023 ∙ 11 min
You Create Intricate Rituals: The Homoerotic Action Movie
Rebecca unpacks themes of homoeroticism in action films, from the more obvious classics to unsuspecting gems.
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Mar 24, 2023 ∙ 9 min
What Maketh a Shakespearean Film Adaptation of Great Distinction
Rebecca Radillo lists the best film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, both the well-known and obscure.
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Dec 23, 2022 ∙ 5 min
Growing Up With The Nightmare Before Christmas
Rebecca looks back on Tim Burton and Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the profound message she's taken from the film.
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Nov 26, 2022 ∙ 13 min
Don’t Try to Understand it. Feel it: Love, the Void, and Christopher Nolan
Rebecca Radillo explores the work of Christopher Nolan, and the statements that Interstellar, Inception and Tenet all make about love.
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Oct 7, 2022 ∙ 6 min
A Brief Investigation of My Favorite Comfort Movies
Rebecca Radillo explores the similarities and differences between the films that have given her the most comfort over the years.
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Aug 19, 2022 ∙ 9 min
Criminal Bodies: Life With Disabilities is the Crime of the Future
Rebecca Radillo explores the parallels between David Cronenberg's world in "Crimes of the Future" and our own.
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Jul 29, 2022 ∙ 8 min
Take My Breath Away, Top Gun Really IS That Homoerotic
Rebecca Radillo explores what exactly makes "Top Gun" — and its successor, "Maverick" — so incredible: the male-male relationships.
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Jun 17, 2022 ∙ 9 min
"I wish I knew how to quit you": Finding Joy in Tragic Gays
Rebecca Radillo breaks down her love for tragic gay couples in film — in spite of the harmful effects of the "bury your gays" trope.
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May 27, 2022 ∙ 7 min
Inglourious Feminists: Tarantino and the Weight of Feminist Guilt
Rebecca Radillo weighs her relationship to feminism against the less-than-feminist films of Quentin Tarantino.
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Oct 9, 2021 ∙ 6 min
Musings About Graduate School: An Analysis of Candyman (1992)
Rebecca Radillo parallels her journey through grad school with the plight of horror academic Helen Lyle.
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