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by Rebecca Martin Fagerholm and Matt Fagerholm
August 11, 2026
To celebrate our fourth wedding anniversary last month, my husband Matt and I flew to San Francisco, rented a car and drove all over the state of California, visiting friends
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by Matt Fagerholm
July 13, 2026
When my wife, Cinema Femme founder Rebecca Martin Fagerholm, and I decided to visit California for our fourth wedding anniversary, we knew that one of our destinations would have to
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by Rebecca Martin
June 10, 2026
I had the honor of speaking with Emmy-winning writer and executive producer Simran Baidwan, who has helped shape The Pitt into one of television’s most distinctive medical dramas. Much like
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by Rebecca Martin
December 23, 2025
I often think about a particular scene from the second series of “Fleabag” as the year draws to a close. Kristin Scott Thomas’s character, Belinda, is at a bar with
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by Rebecca Martin
November 18, 2025
In the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (June 2022) decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, Lauren Melinda’s “Before You” emerges as an intimate, unflinching, and profoundly
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by Matt Fagerholm
September 30, 2025
“If you can’t play with the language, you are not reinventing the language.” This is what Argentine director Gaspar Noé told me when I interviewed him fifteen years ago about
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by Matt Fagerholm
June 24, 2025
As annoyed as I was about Barry Jenkins, one of the greatest filmmakers working today, recently helming a prequel to the worst Disney remake in history, the Oscar-winning director of
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by Matt Fagerholm
February 24, 2025
One of my favorite films I saw in 2024 is finally kicking off its limited theatrical run before arriving on VOD. Last year, I had the privilege of serving on
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by Rebecca Martin
February 14, 2025
I had the great pleasure of speaking with producer Tara Sheffer on her timely Academy Award nominated short film “A Lien.” The film is directed by Sam and David Cutler-Kreutz,
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by Rebecca Martin
November 21, 2024
I got the opportunity to speak with the director Mateusz Balcerek and producer Pinar Binay about their live action short film “Sunflower,” which is now in the competition for an
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by Davide Abbatescianni
September 26, 2024
Tam (Lê Tú Oanh), a diligent wedding venue staffer, discovers her husband’s affair on live TV. Rather than confronting him, she enlists a powerful spell master to win back his
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by Rebecca Martin
June 20, 2024
On the eve of her graduation from DePaul’s MFA Film and Directing program, I had the pleasure of speaking with emerging filmmaker Jewells Santos about her short film “Fatfish.” Jewells
