Contributor Anna McKibbin

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Bodies, Babies and Birth Control in April and All We Imagine as Light

by Anna McKibbin

At a time when access to birth control and abortion is banned, restricted or under threat around the world, work by Dea Kulumbegashvili and Payal Kapadia highlights the necessity of safe options for pregnant people.
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Festivals

Youth (Homecoming) – first-look review

by Anna McKibbin

The final chapter in Wang Bing's epic trilogy examines love old and new in China's Zhili province.
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Festivals

Phantosmia – first-look review

by Anna McKibbin

The Filipino maestro returns with a four-hour meditative drama about a retired military officer who must confront his past after receiving an unusual medical diagnosis.
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Review

It Ends With Us review – struggles to grapple with its heavy themes

by Anna McKibbin

Literary behemoth Colleen Hoover makes her cinematic debut, with this meandering, shallow examination of domestic abuse.

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In Retrospect
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The politics of longing in the cinema of Nicholas Sparks

by Anna McKibbin

Within the wildly successful movies adapted from Sparks' bestselling novels, there's a formula for romantic success.
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Club LWLies

When pop stars become auteurs

by Anna McKibbin

The visual album is a key, genre-defying vessel for pop music titans transferring the symbolic power of their music to image-making.

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