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The onset of the holidays means it is awards season in Hollywood. While plenty of this year’s contenders, including Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Jon M. Chu’s… Read More
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Rami Malek stars as the real-life psychiatrist assigned to monitor Nazi general Herman Goring during the Nuremberg show trials in this all-star retelling. Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant… Read More
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The last few days have seen Hong Kong reeling from the unspeakable tragedy of the fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, which has left at least 146 people… Read More
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Edgar Wright directs Glen Powell in this largely faithful adaptation of Stephen King’s early sci-fi effort. A huge departure from the beloved 1987 version, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the results may… Read More
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As part of our Every Best Picture series, long-time friend of the show Pierce Conran finally joins us to discuss Billy Wilder’s absolutely delightful winner from 1960, starring Jack Lemmon… Read More
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Yorgos Lanthimos takes on the challenge of remaking the 2003 South Korean cult classic “Save the Green Planet” this time with Emma Stone playing the corporate CEO and Jesse Plemons… Read More
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Is A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow’s next masterpiece, or does it fall short? With Rebecca Ferguson and Idris Elba delivering gripping performances, the film promises tension and drama—but does… Read More
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The Grabber is back in the sequel to 2021’s The Black Phone. Cast and crew all return, but as the tone shifts further towards the supernatural, does it forget to… Read More
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein might be the earliest example of body horror, a subgenre of horror that focuses on mutation, destruction and transformation of the human form. These ideas were explored… Read More
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It has been more than three decades since Leslie Nielsen’s bumbling police detective last cracked a case, but now The Naked Gun returns, with Liam Neeson assuming the role of… Read More
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This week sees the cinema release of Ballerina, the first in a series of planned spin-off movies from the incredibly successful John Wick action franchise. Focusing on a new character,… Read More
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Writer-director Ryan Coogler reunites with regular leading man Michael B. Jordan for a gangster-cum-vampire mash-up that takes dead aim at Jim Crow-era America while celebrating the cultural potency of music.… Read More
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Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans burst onto the action scene with The Raid (2011) and The Raid 2 (2014), a bone-crushing brace of visceral Indonesian martial arts films that propelled its… Read More
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First dates can be murder. This is especially true for Violet (Meghann Fahy), the heroine of Christopher Landon’s latest high-concept thriller, Drop, who receives anonymous and increasingly threatening messages on her… Read More
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Steve and I have mixed feelings about the latest science fiction oddity from Bong Joon-ho, the Academy Award winning South Korean filmmaker behind Parasite, Memories of Murder, The Host, and… Read More
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Characters who are impervious to pain, or have an exceptionally high pain threshold, have become increasingly ubiquitous in a cinematic landscape dominated by superheroes and comic-book characters like Deadpool and… Read More
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Timothée Chalamet transforms into rock icon Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s much-lauded music biopic, which boasts standout performances from Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbero. Steve and I bear… Read More
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Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid star in the story of an unconventional romance that goes violently off the rails in this delightfully inventive horror-infused romcom. Full of twists and turns,… Read More
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