Beyond the Upside Down: Assouline Immortalizes the Legacy of ‘Stranger Things’
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July 14, 2026
For a decade, the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, has served as the epicenter of a cultural phenomenon. Since its debut on Netflix in 2016, "Stranger Things" has evolved from a nostalgic homage to 1980s genre cinema into a global titan of…
The Aesthetic of Atrocity: Re-evaluating the Roma Sterilization Crisis in Only Beautiful Things to Look At
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July 11, 2026
In the landscape of European historical cinema, few subjects remain as haunting and under-addressed as the systemic, state-sponsored sterilization of Roma women in Czechoslovakia. Slovakian filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský’s latest feature, Only Beautiful…
