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Reviews of Seasons 1 & 2 & 3 By Joshua Xiang What I feel like when I'm watching The Bear is like listening to a soothing R&B. It's heavy...

By Joshua X "It takes the basic themes of the first film – adolescent isolation, communication breakdown, the messy, stressful business...

By Joshua Xiang "Don't skip your leg day." In a desolate alternate history of the 1970s, a postwar America sets an annual contest for fifty kids, each representing their home state; their goal is to walk, slowly but steadily, never dropping below 3 miles per hour, down a long country highway. If they lose speed, they get a warning and ten seconds to regain their footing. Three warnings, and the garrison of soldiers following them with M16S shoots them dead. The methodical pre

By Joshua Xiang Spectacles and Narratives The Illusion of the Cinema in Singin' in the Rain Introduction When the moving picture was...

By Joshua Xiang (written in 2022, republished in 2025) It would be missing the point to call the proceedings indulgent to the point of...

By Joshua Xiang "Intoxicating, absolutely smouldering, exquisite" "Harmonic, breathtaking..." From the very first frame, some films...