Review: ‘After the Hunt’ Leaves Us Hunting for More

Italian director Luca Guadagnino has been on a hot streak these past couple of years, releasing film after film met with critical and audience acclaim. After 2022’s romance horror Bones and All, and then releasing the sports romance Challengers and his more experimental period romance Queer back-to-back last year, many had high hopes for After the Hunt. In what we anticipated to be a tense psychological thriller, Guadagnino’s latest entry feels like a bit of a letdown. What begins as an exciting and tense story loses steam as the film chugs along, yielding a perfectly ordinary and mildly forgettable film.

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Review: Somehow, Heartbreak Feels Good in ‘We Live in Time’

To imagine Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, two of the most versatile and beloved actors of our generation, starring in a romance film with an innately heart-wrenching premise, our expectations would certainly be high, and We Live in Time successfully reaches that bar.

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UW Film Club Podcast #33 – Under the Silver Lake

“Why do we assume all this podcasting is what we are told it is?” 

On this week’s episode, Cynthia and Greg sit down to discuss David Robert Mitchell’s long awaited and highly polarizing film: Under the Silver Lake. With each providing opposing sides, the two discuss the whether there is deeper meaning to the film or if its just a pretentious mess. In discussion they talk about the film’s commentary on popular culture, its underlying allegory for the fantasies of Hollywood, the use of the male gaze, and how the film may ascend to a future cult status. Crack the code, follow the clues, and find out what’s under the silver lake with the 33rd episode of the UW Film Club Podcast!

On this week’s episode: Cynthia Li, and Greg Arietta.

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