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It's not hard to imagine the pitch for a film like Red Notice, and why it succeeded. It has it all: The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, a treasure hunt, irreverent and self-aware humor, a duplicitous story with several twisty twists, a buried Nazi artifact vault, a
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Don't Look Up is the new end-of-the-world dramedy from director Adam McKay, starring a plethora of talent too long to list here. It's funny, it's painful, it's infuriating, it's uplifting; in other words, it's everything
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If you've never seen a silent film with a live musical accompaniment, you really should. Even if you have nothing more than a passing curiosity about silent film, the experience is worthwhile. The film pops off the screen in a way that 3D has always promised but never
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I recently finished a co-op playthrough of The Quarry, a cinematic, choices-matter horror videogame in the vein of classics like Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain. By drawing heavily from eighties camp slasher flicks and using VHS as a visual reference point, The Quarry fits perfectly into the throwback
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[Reposted from Wordpress, originally posted November 2021. I’ve cleaned up some typos.] In Titanic, when Fabrizio says he can see the Statue of Liberty from the bow of the Titanic, this is obviously a flat-earth truther clue put into the film by director James Cameron. If anyone knows
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The teen film tends to open on a high school world that is already beyond any inciting incident: that is, the social order is already undesirable as the film begins (in this way, the genre that that teen movie most resembles may actually be the social problem film), and the
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Fargo turns 25 next year, and the Coens' 1996 opus not only retains all of the power that I can only imagine it held upon release (I would have been 7 at the time), it actually ages better every time I watch it. More than any other film, Fargo
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a very smart movie masquerading as a very dumb one. The film is a testament to the pull of Nicolas Cage's cult hero persona, warping the very film itself from a thoughtful, self-aware indie dramedy into the kind of absurd
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Film is the engine of paranoia. In the 1970's director Alan J. Pakula created what has been called his "Paranoia Trilogy": Klute (1971), The Parallax View (1974), and All the President's Men (1976). These three films, taken together, do in fact tell us a
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For my Unpopular Opinion of the Day, I would like to propose that Star Wars (the whole of it) is bad where films like Barbarella and, slightly more self-consciously, Flash Gordon are good films. Barbarella is genius not because it's more ridiculous fun than Star Wars (which
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Fishing with John is a fishing show by and for people who don't care about fishing, at least not in the grand scheme of things. The real story is the cosmos. But now that everything old is new again -- or should that be everything you think is new
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Like most people in the COVID era, I think a lot about space. Not outer space, like the wealthy elites preparing to flee the climate change they've brought on the world, but physical space, the kind we inhabit every day. Perhaps more than any other film genre, it&