Angela Morrison

Actual film school graduate from Toronto. Always thinking and writing about queerness, feminism, camp, melodrama, and popular culture.
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A Conversation With ‘Hot Girls Wanted’ Filmmakers Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus

By Angela Morrison 

The two documentarians shared their thoughts on filmmaking, technology, and telling stories about relationships.

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Lynchian Doubles: ‘Mulholland Drive’ and ‘Lost Highway’

By Angela Morrison 

Lynch’s two films are filled with dualities, and they double each other as well.

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All Alone is All We Are: ‘Six Feet Under’ and Grief on Television

By Angela Morrison 

The HBO series never sugar coated truths about loss and death.

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Magic in the Mist: Niagara Falls on Film

By Angela Morrison 

The natural wonder has been captured on film in many different ways since the invention of the medium.

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‘Hot Girls Wanted’: Documentary, Sex, and Technology

By Angela Morrison 

The new Netflix series explores the complexities of sex in the modern age.

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Forever and Ever and Ever: Uncanny Doubles in ‘The Shining’

By Angela Morrison 

Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 masterpiece is full of doubles, doppelgängers, and alter-egos.

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Feathers and Female Transformations: Becoming-Animal in ‘Black Swan’

By Angela Morrison 

Darren Aronofsky’s film portrays the horror and violence of becoming a different species.

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Toronto: The Cinematic City

By Angela Morrison 

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All That Hollywood Allows: Douglas Sirk’s Brilliant Melodramas

By Angela Morrison 

The European filmmaker directed a series of deceptively complex melodramas in the 1950s.