Stephanie Rose
Popfilter’s Foriegn Flick of the Week
Greece’s Dogtooth A few years ago, an art exhibit in Brooklyn featured painting of a black Virgin Mary splattered with elephant feces. Not surprisingly, this got people talking. Soon enough there was a nationwide debate about what art is suppose to be and, since the exhibit received government money, whether the taxpayers should subsidize “offensive†art.…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Denmark’s The Celebration or “How to Clean Skeletons out of the Family Closet” A few years ago, there emerged a movement in Denmark, called dogme 95, that tried to deconstruct films in order to tell stories that were raw and free from all the expensive bells…
Read MoreA Word on Robin Williams
On August 11, 2014, the world lost one of the warmest, funniest, and furriest actors that it has ever known. I have heard it said that if you were born between 1980 and 1990, a group that includes all of the PopFilter writers, and I’m guessing most of our readership, Robin Williams meant a great…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Brazil’s City of God or “It’s a hard knock life for child murders” When I started this article, my hope was that it would inspire people to go out and experience movies that dealt with things outside of their cultural bubble. I then had to make a…
Read MoreWE DID IT!
We did it! Thank you Filterinos for your support, be it monetary, emotional, spiritual,, intellectual, sexual, but most of all monetary. It means a lot that everyone would give so generously to a handful of people who are addicted to pop culture, even if you only gave to get us to shut the fuck up.…
Read MoreHAPPY 3 YEARS OF POPFILTERING!
While I write this update, I’m drinking a Bloody Mary, and doing so for a couple of reasons: First off, because it’s Saturday. That means it’s totally okay for anyone to start drinking whenever they feel like it, regardless of what “time†it is or how many “families†with “kids†are running around to say…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Japan’s My Neighbor Totoro or “The Anti Disney-Princess Fantasy Movie somehow still brought to you by Disney” Okay, that retitle is a little misleading. My Neighbor Totoro is a film by legendary animator and director Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) and released in 1988. It…
Read MoreKICKSTARTER
That’s right folks, as the headline of this article subtly suggests, we have launched our very own YourPopFilter.com KickStarter! Why you ask? Well, look around this site. Pretty great articles and podcasts right? But notice how your eyes want to vomit while looking at it all? We at the YPF Headquarters noticed that too. And…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Sweden’s Let the Right One In Let the Right One In came out in 2008 and directed by Tomas Alfredson. It is the story of a lonely boy named Oskar who befriends a strange girl who moves in next door named Eli. There is something a little…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Mexico’s Y Tu Mamá También (WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY) When I started telling people I was writing an article on this movie, their reactions ranged from, “Wow, that’s a really great movie!” to “Hey! That was the first movie I ever jacked off to.”…
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