Cinema Scholars

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The first three seasons of the ITV spy series The Avengers aired from 1961 to 1964. It was very popular in the UK, but because it didn’t air in the United States, it had no name recognition at all with television audiences on that side of the pond.

In late 1963, ITV devised a plan to change that and bring awarenes...

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If the first two acts of the Sherman Brothers’ story map their ascent within the Disney empire, then act three is what happens after the final curtain; how their music outlived its moment; how their influence seeped into generations that have never heard their names. And how the brothers themselves grappled with the complicated legacy of being bo...

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So… let’s talk about Pressure, an entire movie centered on the weather. Does anybody actually like talking about the weather? I don’t mean extreme weather like tornadoes or blizzards. I mean the kind of weather that dominates almost all small talk, especially after your older relatives run out of personal ailments to des...

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Sixty years. It’s been six decades since the Caped Crusader first leapt from the small screen onto the silver screen, armed with still infamous and meme-worthy, shark-repellent Bat-spray and an earnestness that modern superhero cinema often forgets. Released in the summer of 1966, Leslie H. Martinson’s Batman: The Movie ...

Cinema Scholars reviews the teenage pregnancy drama American Baby, directed by Ellen Rodnianski. The film won the Audience Award last fall at the Austin Film Festival and, more recently, took the Grand Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival.

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Cautionary tales about teen pregnancy are eternally popular...