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Nov 30, 2024 | 
epw.in | Rahul Verma |Andrew Wyatt
ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
epw.in | Andrew Wyatt
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s election propaganda is surveyed with a focus on the election speeches given by Narendra Modi. The empirical finding is that campaign speeches given by the Prime Minister routinely included multiple references to the past. Given that elections are often understood in transactional or material ways, references to abstract historical topics require interpretation.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
thehinducentre.com | Andrew Wyatt
India’s 64.2 crore voters delivered (for many) a surprising result in the just concluded 18 th general elections 1. In a seven-phase poll, spread over India’s sweltering summer months from mid-April to early June, they defied the common assumption that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was headed for an easy victory. My own interpretation is that the outcome 2 reflected longer term trends in Indian party politics which should prompt us to expect complexity and contingency.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
riverfronttimes.com | Cliff Froehlich |Andrew Wyatt
Reflecting the division in the country whose internecine conflict it vividly depicts, Alex Garland’s Civil War splits unevenly in two, alternating brutally effective and disturbing sequences of violence with caesuras of conversation and uneasy respite. The former, with their amped-up urgency and ratcheting suspense, display an impressive filmmaking mastery, but the latter strive for a level of sociocultural insight that they regrettably never quite reach.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
metrotimes.com | Layla McMurtrie |Andrew Wyatt
Sound is likely not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about art, but this new exhibition is challenging you to think outside of the box. Kresge Arts in Detroit is holding its first-ever online art show, featuring the 2023 cohort of Artist Fellows and Gilda Award recipients in visual and literary arts. The online show features a mix of mediums including painting, ceramics, poetry, and more, all tied together with audio elements.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
riverfronttimes.com | Andrew Wyatt |Craig D. Lindsey
When we are first introduced to the protagonist of Monkey Man — who is identified only as “The Kid” (Dev Patel) — he’s taking a savage beating in an underground fight club. Each night, he dons a ragged ape mask and plays the heel, allowing the fan-favorite champion to pummel him into a pulp, all to the enthusiastic cheers of a bloodthirsty crowd. If pressed, the Kid would probably insist that he’s just trying to make a buck in a world where the odds are stacked against the have-nots.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
leoweekly.com | Andrew Wyatt
Monkey ManDirected by Dev Patel. Written by Dev Patel, Paul Angunawela and John Collee. Opens April 5. When we are first introduced to the protagonist of Monkey Man — who is identified only as “The Kid” (Dev Patel) — he’s taking a savage beating in an underground fight club. Each night, he dons a ragged ape mask and plays the heel, allowing the fan-favorite champion to pummel him into a pulp, all to the enthusiastic cheers of a bloodthirsty crowd.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
riverfronttimes.com | Craig D. Lindsey |Cliff Froehlich |Paula Tredway |Andrew Wyatt
Kung Fu Panda 4 reminds us that animated movie franchises should really end after the third one. I’m still kinda mad that Pixar gave us one of the best movie trilogies of all time with the Toy Story saga, then served up a meh fourth installment in 2019. The same goes with the Shrek franchise, already running on fumes when DreamWorks dropped the Justin Timberlake-enhanced Shrek the Third, churning out the It’s a Wonderful Life-ish Shrek Forever After in 2010.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
riverfronttimes.com | Cliff Froehlich |Paula Tredway |Andrew Wyatt |Kayla McCulloch
After 21 editions, the True/False Film Fest — or simply T/F — needs no introduction to cinephiles, especially to that savvy subset of moviegoers devoted to nonfiction filmmaking. Unfolding over four days in late winter, T/F annually takes over the college town of Columbia, Missouri, briefly transforming mid-Missouri into the center of the documentary universe.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
riverfronttimes.com | Paula Tredway |Kayla McCulloch |Andrew Wyatt |Cliff Froehlich
St. Louis film and commercial editor Lucas Harger is headed for Hollywood — well, Austin, Texas, for now. Harger, a partner and supervising editor at Outpost which is part of the St. Louis-based film production company Bruton Stroube, has not one but two sports documentaries, Clemente and Lions of Mesopotamia, playing at the 2024 South by Southwest film festival, which runs from Friday, March 8 to Saturday, March 16. “I'm pumped!” he exclaims.
