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Mind Your Manners: I Am Cuba

By Finn Odum July 21, 2024 July 29, 2024 The Long Take

Maria, a Cuban local, with her beau, René. René sells bananas while dreaming of marrying his love.

|Nazeeh Alghazawneh| Propaganda is a funny thing to be afraid of because it’s uniquely man-made, and therefore not real. It only exists along the periphery of chasing omniscience—an impossibility that grants salvation, the liberation that keeps us from killing each other. Continue reading

Down the Yellow Brick Road and Through the Looking Glass: How Zardoz Was Colored by its Era and Reflects Back on Today

By Finn Odum May 5, 2024 April 30, 2024 Charlotte Rampling's Illusions of Invulnerability

|Zach Staads| So, the civilization we know today is coming to an end and the enlightened intelligentsia want to use the end of the world as a playground for their own disaffected experiments and whims as they figure out immortality and aren’t sure what to do with the cruder… Continue reading

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