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‘The Stranger’ Turns Existentialism Into Something Dangerous

April 26, 2026 Neal Pollack 3 Comments absurdism, Albert Camus, Algiers 1930s, arthouse cinema, Benjamin Voisin, best films 2026, black and white film, book adaptation, Camus adaptation, classic literature, colonial history, colonialism, culture criticism, existential philosophy, existentialism, film adaptation, film criticism, film reviews, foreign film, François Ozon, French Algeria, French cinema, French New Wave, Italian neorealism, Jean-Paul Sartre, media analysis, Meursault, movie reviews, Orson Welles adaptation, philosophy in film, Pierre Lottin, postcolonial themes, race and identity, Rebecca Marder, The Cure Killing an Arab, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, violence and morality

François Ozon’s elegant Camus adaptation finds new urgency in colonial Algiers

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Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’ Stings with Paranoid Precision

November 2, 2025November 5, 2025 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments absurdism, AI paranoia, Aidan Delbis, Alicia Silverstone, big pharma, Bugonia, conspiracy culture, dark comedy, Emma Stone, film review, Jesse Plemons, Pete Seeger, psychological thriller, satire, Save the Green Planet, Stavros Halkias, Yorgos Lanthimos

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons electrify in a hallucinatory satire about the human urge to find meaning in chaos

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Check Out Boeing in ‘Freefall’

September 23, 2026September 28, 2026 Robert Dean 0

New documentary show crashes don’t come from just one lil’ engineering failure

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Hasta La Vista, Toronto, You Ended Strong

September 22, 2026September 28, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0

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No Need for Monster Logic in ‘Resident Evil’

September 22, 2026September 25, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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BFG Podcast #315: Venice, Oasis and Hope

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