Author: Trevor Dillon

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Event Recap

Memories of Midsummer Scream – July 29th – July 31st, 2022

August 8, 2022

Just this last July weekend, The Frida Cinema’s staff stormed the main hall at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach! For those not familiar, Midsummer Scream

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Announcement

Tonight’s (1/28) Members Only Screening of The Graduate Is Postponed!

January 28, 2021

Hello! Trevor here. I regret to inform you that tonight's (1/28/21) Member's Only screening of THE GRADUATE is postponed to a later date, Thursday, February

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Film Criticism

The Shining: 40 Years Later

November 25, 2020

As The Shining celebrates it's 40th anniversary this year, here is a deep dive into the film's complicated history.

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Trevor Dillon

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Film Criticism

The Societal Horror of Nightcrawler: Lou Bloom as the Perfect American

October 21, 2020

Jake Gyllenhaal's Lou Bloom offers a terrifying look and searing criticism of American society and it's ideas about success and perfection.

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Film Criticism

Tax Shelters, Mutant Children, and Exploding Heads: A Brief Look at David Cronenberg and Canada in the late 1970s.

September 23, 2020

Volunteer Gabe Neeb offers context to our David Cronenberg Scanners + The Brood double feature in a guest blog.

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Trevor Dillon

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Film Criticism

The Writer’s Room: Top 10 Films of the 2010s

February 24, 2020

As another decade has come and gone, we here in The Frida Cinema Writer’s Room have been reflecting on the past ten years in film.

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Featured / Highlight

The MANDY Diaries

September 26, 2019

The goal is to catch a "cult classic" in its prime. I know this doesn't make a lot of sense, seeing as cult classics,

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