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Review of ‘The Road Film’

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In The Road Movie, director Dmitrii Kalashnikov uses footage from dashboard cameras of cars in Russia to form a collection of stories. Each clip is its own anecdote with its own set of circumstances. Kalashnikov varies these short episodes so that in the movie’s 72 minutes, we feel terrified, confused and entertained. We are passengers […]

Review of ‘Hypernormalisation’

Blood streaks dry on the floor while nervous round children dance and an Irish woman describes “topsy-turvy” Syrian bomb-outs in a utopia where men cry and exiled hippies dress the entrails of cyberhell in corporate manifestos. Adam Curtis’ mammoth HyperNormalisation addresses the collapse of established reality in the wider world, examining substitute narratives, suicide bombings, […]

Review of ‘Casting JonBenet’

A group of little blonde girls flood into the frame all dressed in the same red, white and blue, pageant-like outfit. There’s a loud, overall chatter as these girls giggle and converse with each other. Among the discourse, you can hear one girl distinctly murmur “JonBenet Ramsey”. Then, the scene cuts to a little girl […]

Review of Anna Zamecka’s ‘Communion’

First-time Polish director Anna Zamecka’s documentary Communion has a deceptively simple premise: a Polish teenager named Ola tends to her autistic brother Nikodem and Marek, her oft-drunk father, in the days leading to and following Nikodem’s First Communion. The truth of the matter is, however, that Communion is so much more than the sum of […]

Tracy Tragos discusses new film

The Pulse spoke to director Tracy Tragos on air yesterday about her movie Abortion: Stories Women Tell. Tragos touched on what inspired her to make the movie and the variety of voices featured in her movie. You can catch Abortion: Stories Women Tell at the Citizen Jane Film Festival this weekend or on HBO in 2017.

MU Tonight: Mizzou’s Newest Comedy Program

What is MU Tonight? This piece will dive into and explore MU-TV’s newest program, how it came about, and much more.

Tattoos, explained.

As the headline says: Tattoos, explained.