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12 Movies to Watch After You See ‘Snatched’
We recommend better movies with Goldie Hawn, Amy Schumer, mother/daughter relationships, South America kidnappings, and more. The movie that finally brought Goldie Hawn back to the big screen after a...
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Max Fury Road
The fan-made trailer to end all fan-made trailers. Idon’t normally run with a lot of fan made trailers here, the kind of things that turn comedies into thrillers or thrillers into comedies, not out of...
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‘Small Crimes’ Review: Netflix’s Latest Paroles Our Attention Too Early
Evan Katz’s second feature lets Nikolaj Coster-Waldau shine all too briefly. Writer/director Evan Katz’s debut film Cheap Thrills is a strange, malevolent, masochistic, and wickedly cruel black-humored...
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‘The Bronson Maneuver’ is a Hilarious Blend of Puppetry, Animation, and Spycraft
Not your typical spy flick. It’s a scenario as old as the Cold War: a dapper-dressed secret agent infiltrates an enemy stronghold in search of a powerful object, only to find his way barred by a series...
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The Tao of Nicolas Cage: …and Then He Got ‘Ghost Rider’
Nic Cage put so much work into landing a superhero gig…and then he got Ghost Rider. “Yeah, I’m good. I feel like my skull is on fire, but I’m good.” It’s been a few weeks since we’ve jumped into the...
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‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’ Finds Terror Behind the Zipper
Plus 17 More New Releases (from last week) to Watch on Blu-ray/DVD! Welcome to this week in home video! And by “this week” I mean “last week” as we were offline last week. Click the title to buy a...
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20 Movies You Didn’t Know Premiered at Cannes
Cannes Film Festival is more accessible than you might think. First off, yes, it’s just pronounced “can.” Don’t be intimidated by Cannes Film Festival’s seemingly impenetrable Frenchness or its...
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‘Brain Damage’ Comes to Blu-ray In All Its Goofy, Gory Glory
Frank Henenlotter’s tale of a boy and his penis-shaped parasite. Brian (Rick Hearst) is a mind his own business kind of guy, but when he awakens one morning with a parasite he discovers a fresh...
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‘Master of None’ Delivers A Masterful Season 2
It’s all about the small moments in the ambitious and moving second season. Charming. There are few shows airing today that, from top to bottom, are as charming as Master of None. The Netflix comedy...
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When Ambition Becomes Greed: Similarities in ‘Citizen Kane’ and ‘The Wolf of...
A video compares the oversized egos of Charles Foster Kane and Jordan Belfort Ambition is a form of greed. A nicer form, to be sure, but at base the two are the same thing: drives to get what you want....
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The Tale of Two King Arthur Movies
Also a tale of the person-shaped thing that’s supposed to be Charlie Hunnam. For this week’s One Perfect Pod review, Matthew chats with Mashable’s Angie Han to talk about her Guy Ritchie appreciation,...
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‘Snatched’ is the Biggest Comedy of the Year So Far
As far as sophomore slumps go, Amy Schumer’s isn’t so bad. Following her breakout success with TV’s Laugh-In and then the 1969 movie Cactus Flower, for which she received an Oscar, Goldie Hawn...
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“Journey Through ‘Twin Peaks’” – The Most Definitive Video Guide to the Series
This is where experts go when they want to know more. Pardon the humble brag here, but I consider myself a bit of an expert when it comes to Twin Peaks. Over the last quarter-century it has been a...
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‘The Falling’ Director Carol Morley Is Coming to America
‘Out of Blue’ will star Patricia Clarkson, and marks the ‘Dreams of a Life’ director’s first attempt to break America. Carol Morley, director of 2011’s empathic part-drama part-documentary Dreams of a...
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An Homage to Atmosphere: ‘Halloween’ and ‘It Follows’
There are more than mere surface connections here. When director David Robert Mitchell released It Follows a few years back, he accomplished something pretty amazing: a horror film that felt...
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Get ‘Boycrazy’ with David Lowery and Alexi Wasser; Plus, Wasser’s ‘Love Alexi’
Two shorts for the price of one: free. Today, David Lowery is a filmmaker on the verge of greatness. His debut feature, St. Nick, stirred waves in the American independent scene, and his follow-up,...
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Last Night The Wachowski Sisters Saved My Life
How Sense8 became as perfect a summation of the Wachowskis’ art as we’ve yet had. There’s a moment toward the end of the second season of Sense8 (now streaming on Netflix) where one character says to...
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You Will Always Remember The Day You Almost Leaked Classified Information
Did Donald Trump leak Pirates of the Caribbean 5, too? Probably not, but someone did. Forget about what may or may not have been said to some Russians in the Oval Office last week, as we’ve got a real...
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The Banality of Certain Evils
A look at how Laurence Bennett built Bernie Madoff’s world. Trying to kill a few hundred innocent civilians to make a point about human nature don’t stop little imitations of Heath Ledger’s Joker from...
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Making Beautiful Movies with Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki
Considered one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, of all-time. Winning one Academy Award is the culmination of passion, practice, and patience. Winning two Academy Awards is all those things plus...
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