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Nadine Smith
Nadine Smith is a writer, DJ, and co-host of the podcast Hotbox the Cinema. Her work has appeared in publications like the New York Times Magazine, Pitchfork, the Outline, Bandcamp Daily, Observer, and the Nashville Scene.
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Why Pimple Popping Videos Are So Strangely Satisfying
YouTube is full of videos of nasty skin conditions getting treated, many of which have over a million views. What’s behind our morbid fascination with such entertainment?
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The Mutations We May Endure When Our Global Environment Becomes Uninhabitable
Joel Potrykus’s new film Relaxer is at once his smallest — following a single protagonist isolated in his apartment for the entire runtime — and his most visionary.
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A Cuban Filmmaker’s Brutal Satire of Religion and Colonialism
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s The Last Supper plays as part of Film Forum’s ongoing series The Hour of Liberation: Decolonizing Cinema, 1966-1981, which presents both classic and overlooked anti-imperialist films.
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Gaspar Noé’s Latest Film Is a Drug-Fueled DJ Mix from Hell
Climax is something of a feature-length DJ mix, with Noé behind the decks.