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fromInverse
2 days ago

Hulu Just Quietly Released The Trippiest Sci-Fi Movie Of The Year

College experiences often involve experimentation with substances, making it a fitting backdrop for coming-of-age stories like Pizza Movie.
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from48 hills
2 days ago

Screen Grabs: Aliens, witches, mermaids, and other swell company - 48 hills

Love can take unconventional forms, as seen in films featuring relationships with aliens, witches, and other offbeat characters.
Music production
fromIndieWire
3 days ago

This Is What Honest AI Conversations Sound Like in Hollywood

Mastery in the age of AI is evolving, requiring individuals to excel beyond a baseline of quickly learned skills.
#guillermo-del-toro
fromInverse
2 weeks ago
Independent films

29 Years Later, Guillermo del Toro's "Lost" Film Just Got An Incredible Upgrade

Independent films
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

29 Years Later, Guillermo del Toro's "Lost" Film Just Got An Incredible Upgrade

Guillermo del Toro's 1997 film Mimic showcases his directorial vision despite studio interference from producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein, establishing themes that define his later career.
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fromThe Independent
3 days ago

How Backrooms went from a viral 4chan post to an A24 movie starring acclaimed actor

A24's horror film Backrooms explores a fictional liminal space inspired by a viral internet myth from 4chan.
Typography
fromfontsinuse.com
2 weeks ago

Pussy Wagon

The Pussy Wagon, a pink Chevrolet Silverado from Kill Bill: Volume 1, reframes a sexist term through Tarantino's affirmation, becoming an iconic symbol of female revenge and empowerment.
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fromWIRED
4 days ago

Watching a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters Made Me More Hopeful About Our Collective Brain Rot

A seven-and-a-half-hour film screening challenges modern attention spans, highlighting a cultural shift in viewing habits and the struggle for sustained focus.
fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago

Thierry Fremaux on Why 'Today, We Never Trust Images We See' - but We Can Trust the Lumiere Brothers and 'Apocalypse Now'

The invention of the Cinématographe was ready right away. The process of the invention was longer, and there were a lot of inventors before Lumière.
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fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

Films Are Fantasies. Here Are Their Realities.

Atsushi Nishijima, an on-set stills photographer, has documented major films over the past decade and a half, capturing candid moments between takes on sets directed by prominent filmmakers.
Beer
fromFuncheap
3 weeks ago

Burton Fest: Inspired by the Mind of Tim Burton (Easy Bay)

Burton Fest celebrates Tim Burton's aesthetic with themed experiences, gothic cocktails, and whimsical attractions across multiple immersive zones.
#jim-jarmusch
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

How The Year's Most Surprising AI Thriller Crafts A Dangerously Beautiful Dystopia

DreamQuil is filled with so many anxieties that now feel commonplace, or that growing leaders in the development of AI will call 'inevitable.' Ads present tidy solutions to Carol before she even realizes she has a problem, as if the tech around her home is listening to every conversation. Some ads even feature her likeness, reaffirming the fears that AI will replace actors like Banks in real life.
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fromConde Nast Traveler
1 month ago

Where to See a Movie in Los Angeles, the Heart of American Cinema

Los Angeles is home to more than a dozen one-of-a-kind cinemas that operate on their own terms. Some of these theaters have been around for 100 years, and in classic LA fashion some of them are owned by living LA legends-think Quentin Tarantino and Kyle Ng. Kristen Stewart recently announced she's also jumping into the mix with her purchase of Los Angeles's Highland Theatre.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Sofia Coppola Stays in the Shallow End with the New Marc Jacobs Documentary

Marc Jacobs's Fall/Winter 2026 presentation showcases a cultural collage of influences, emphasizing the designer's unique approach to fashion.
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fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago

Say Goodbye to Awards Season with a Rewatch of David Cronenberg's Deeply Bleak 'Maps to the Stars'

IndieWire After Dark showcases fringe cinema, focusing on David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' as a cult film worth revisiting.
fromLondon On The Inside
2 weeks ago

Escape Reality with This Blade Runner Double Feature

Kick off with Ridley Scott's 1982 OG Blade Runner: The Final Cut, which stars Harrison Ford as a special agent on a mission to exterminate escaped androids. Ford is joined by Ryan Gosling in the Denis Villeneuve-directed Blade Runner 2049, which is sure to whet your appetite for Dune: Part Three - hitting cinemas this December.
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fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Paul Thomas Anderson Explains Himself (Kind Of)

Paul Thomas Anderson wrote One Battle After Another for his children to explore how his generation left the world for theirs, addressing complex character portrayals and generational themes.
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fromInverse
3 weeks ago

55 Years Later, George Lucas' Directorial Debut Is Still A Master Class Of Ingenuity

George Lucas self-financed and used cost-saving techniques like matte paintings and reused props to create the original 1977 Star Wars on an $11 million budget, applying lessons learned from his earlier film THX 1138.
Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

'Oh My God, They're Ruining the Show'

Revealing Laura Palmer's killer undermined Twin Peaks' core mystery and disrupted the show's narrative momentum, contributing to its decline in season two.
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fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 weeks ago

"We're Becoming More and More Disconnected as a Society": Alex Prager on DreamQuil

Pursuing happiness through AI automation risks eroding the human connections and responsibilities that give life meaning.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Dead Lover review go-for-broke grotesquerie promises fragrant filth in full Stink-O-Vision

Dead Lover's heroine is odorous by trade, a lovelorn gravedigger of indeterminate age and origin. Glowicki's accent, roaming between Canada, Canvey Island and Canberra, becomes part of the fun—she's driven to extremes after her verse-spouting poet sweetheart perishes in a shipwreck. Part-Burke and Hare, part-Victor Frankenstein, she salvages what she can of the corpse.
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fromDefector
2 weeks ago

Paul Thomas Anderson Finally Gets His Coronation | Defector

Paul Thomas Anderson won the Best Director Oscar for One Battle After Another as a pseudo lifetime achievement award, recognizing his decades of critically acclaimed work that the Academy had previously overlooked.
Music
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

A Year After David Lynch's Death, the Band Xiu Xiu Is Keeping 'Eraserhead' Alive Onstage

Xiu Xiu reinterpret David Lynch's film soundscapes, touring Eraserhead while treating fandom as deeply impactful, participatory artistic engagement.
#contemporary-art
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago
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Amazing Vaporwave-esque Reels Where Hesitant Signals Reveal Neon Distortions And Found-footage Glitches At Precise GPS Coordinates

fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago
Photography

Amazing Vaporwave-esque Reels Where Hesitant Signals Reveal Neon Distortions And Found-footage Glitches At Precise GPS Coordinates

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fromVulture
3 weeks ago

What Happens in the Mirror Universe Where Leo Chooses Boogie Nights

Leonardo DiCaprio's decision to star in Titanic instead of Boogie Nights was his biggest career regret, raising questions about how different both actors' trajectories would have been.
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fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Steven Spielberg says he's 'never used AI' in any of his films | TechCrunch

Steven Spielberg opposes AI use in creative filmmaking roles, stating he has never used it in his films and will not replace creative individuals with machines.
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago

Stanley Kubrick's Final Mystery

Eyes Wide Shut was stranger than that: a meditative art film whose much-hyped orgy scene is more creepy than sexy, run by a cabal of rich and powerful men who prey on young women.
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#surrealism
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fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

The Perverse, Tender Worlds of Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson uses meticulous sound design and minute details to explore control, narcissism, and power dynamics in intimate relationships within a 1950s London couture setting.
History
fromInverse
2 months ago

Uncanny Valley Forge! Here's Why One New AI Movie From A Great Director Looks Bizarre AF

Darren Aronofsky's AI-generated 1776 reenactments feel soulless, visually limited, and historically inaccurate due to current AI cinematic technology.
fromInverse
2 months ago

Hollywood Loves An Insomniac - But Does It Get Sleep Deprivation Right?

"It's important to be consistent, intentional, and mindful about sleep," Buenaver, the head of Johns Hopkins' Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, tells Inverse. "People get frustrated by insomnia, and then it's easy to slip into bad habits, and then you're exhausted and chasing sleep."
Mental health
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fromEntrepreneur
3 weeks ago

This Cult Filmmaker Learned Something About Audiences Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know'Make Them Feel Something'

Kevin Smith built a personal brand by connecting directly with fans, which created lasting career opportunities beyond individual film projects in an unpredictable industry.
#david-lynch
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fromThe Atlantic
4 weeks ago

Six Bizarre Movies That Are Actually Fun to Watch

Atlantic writers recommend bizarre films that balance weirdness with entertainment value, including Iron Sky about Nazis on the moon and Jupiter Ascending.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Gus Van Sant: My assistant wanted to erect a statue of Luigi Mangione. My generation thought: this is murder'

Director Gus Van Sant dramatizes the 1977 Tony Kiritsis hostage crisis, a 63-hour standoff involving a shotgun wire attached to a hostage's head, in the film Dead Man's Wire.
Arts
from48 hills
2 months ago

His suburban idylls teem with the 'uncanny magic of the exceptionally unexceptional' - 48 hills

Jonathan Crow’s American Realist paintings prioritize mood, composition, and color to evoke intuitive, music-like emotional responses that resist simple verbal definition.
fromConsequence
2 months ago

The Beauty Review: Ryan Murphy's Deranged X-Files Remix Knows that It's Camp

The new FX series The Beauty opens in Paris, as a model played by Bella Hadid strides down a fashion show runway to the tune of Prodigy's "Firestarter." Then, she starts to overheat, going on a rampage that involves grabbing bottles of water out of people's hands, stealing a motorcycle, drinking out of a toilet, and eventually meeting a gruesome, explosive end.
Television
fromPortland Mercury
1 month ago

Bruce Campbell on Death, Dying, and DIYing His New Movie Ernie & Emma

Who needs all those notes? I got tired of that. Really, really tired of that. And I'm like, man, if you're in the arts, you should do everything you can to protect your art. So Campbell knew he wanted to make a movie, and he knew he didn't want to go through the big Hollywood machine.
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fromThe Independent
1 month ago

Spielberg, Coppola and Lucas: The toxic friendship that built modern Hollywood

George Lucas should have died. It was 1962; the 17-year-old had just crashed his yellow Autobianchi convertible into a walnut tree, in Modesto, California. The car rolled, bounced and came to rest - it was "beyond mangled, flipped upside down and twisted like a crushed Coke can against the tree". When the teenager woke in hospital two weeks later, his heart having nearly stopped, he had a new philosophy: "Maybe there's a reason I survived this accident that nobody should have survived."
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fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Kyle MacLachlan: You have to let failure bring you to uncomfortable places and find out it's never personal'

Kyle MacLachlan (Washington, 66 years old) is not used to contemplating the apocalypse. It's enough to make it to the end of the day, the actor jokes from his Los Angeles home. In one hand, he holds a cup of black coffee a la Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks, and in the other, a fistful of nuts. I'm going to eat breakfast while we talk, he warns, with his habitual blend of amiability and oddity.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

The Future of Horror Movies Is on YouTube

YouTube has become a primary platform for discovering emerging horror filmmakers who transition from short-form content to feature films with studio backing.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Stunning Daily Renders Blending Cinema 4D And AI Into Otherworldly Scenes by Will Toulan

Dad Gets Tattoo So His 6-Year-Old Daughter Wouldn't Feel Different 21 Watercolors That Show How The Sun And Shadows Change Cities The Designer Reveals His Suggestions for Redesigning Famous Brands Naive, Super: Lovely Paintings by Angela Smyth Creative Spontaneous Sketches of Faces and Figures by Pawe Ponichtera Logo Artists Reinterpreted 38 Of The Most Recognizable Logos With A Single Unbroken Line Artist Paints While Under The Influence Of 20 Different Drugs The Uncannily Realistic Landscapes Of Carolyn H. Edlund
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fromInverse
2 months ago

Hulu Just Quietly Released The Most Ridiculous Sci-Fi Show Of The Year

I try to be a sophisticated TV viewer. I watch as many miniseries as I can, keep up to date with the latest in Prestige TV, and make sure I don't miss out on any sleeper hits. However, I'm also self-actualized enough to admit that I love my fair share of slop. I religiously watch RuPaul's Drag Race, 90 Day Fiancé, and whatever weird reality craze has grasped pop culture.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Hyperpop, poetry, BDSM or a Moroccan rave allegory? Choose your own cinematic adventure

Charli XCX stars in The Moment, a hyperpop faux documentary examining fame and commercialization; Alexander Skarsgård appears in both comedic and BDSM-romantic roles.
fromEsquire
1 month ago

How A24's Liminal Horror Movie 'Backrooms' Was Born From the Internet

Until recently, "liminal spaces" were only known to architects. But on the Internet, storytellers and amateur filmmakers have morphed these ubiquitous places you pass by on errand runs into caverns of cosmic terror. Now, a new A24 film from 20-year-old filmmaker Kane Parsons is set to kick off the summer and christen it the season of liminal horror.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Eternally spellbinding': the TV shows that baffle you but you can't get enough of

Catterick, Monkey Dust, The OA, and Mrs Davies deliver surreal, darkly comic, and increasingly bizarre narratives blending crime, dreamlike animation, sci‑fi, and oddball humor.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

An Artist Layers Synthwave Glow And Surreal Dreams Into Vibrant Worlds Celebrating Neurodivergence And Inner Strength

A diverse collection of provocative visual works spans dark mortality themes, surreal and conceptual art, tattoos, social commentary, and popular-culture phenomena like NFTs.
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fromThe Nation
1 month ago

Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction

Werner Herzog pursues 'ecstatic truth' through cinema, blending documentary reality with fabrication to capture profound human experiences beyond conventional articulation.
Arts
fromArtforum
2 months ago

Suburban Sublime

SORRAT transformed Neihardt's grief into a cross-disciplinary psychic experiment that merged poetry, ritual, science, and avant-garde art to probe consciousness and the afterlife.
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fromFuturism
1 month ago

Hollywood Is Lying to Everyone About How Much AI They're Using, Says Consummate Hollywood Insider

Hollywood studios are using AI more widely across writing and production than they publicly acknowledge.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Pillion' stars, director enjoyed their walk on the wild side

Pillion centers a gay dom–sub love story that celebrates leather community visibility, sparking enthusiastic, costumed screenings and earning strong critical acclaim.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

The Weirdest Existential Thriller Of The 2000s Just Got A Huge Upgrade

Birth portrays a widow's unresolved grief and rising doubt when a child claims to be her late husband's reincarnation, unsettling her attempt to move on.
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fromQueerty
1 month ago

A raunchy new Gregg Araki comedy just dropped & it's the perfect excuse to rewatch his other queer classic - Queerty

Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex secured theatrical distribution and one of his acclaimed films will receive a restored re-release.
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

How the "Netflix Movie" Turns Cinema into "Visual Muzak"

A quarter-century later, it's safe to say that those days have come to an end. Not only does the streaming-only Netflix of the twenty-twenties no longer transmit movies on DVD through the mail (a service its younger users have trouble even imagining), it ranks approximately nowhere as a preferred cinephile destination. That has to do with a selection much diminished since the DVD days
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fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Erich von Stroheim's Spectacular Art Is Back

A new reconstruction of Stroheim's unfinished 1929 film Queen Kelly reveals his curtailed yet influential directorial vision and significance in silent-film history.
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fromInsideHook
2 months ago

In Defense of Movie Sex Scenes

Onscreen sex scenes can be narratively essential but are often gratuitous, harmful, or disruptive when objectifying participants, reinforcing stereotypes, or damaging a film's flow.
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fromVulture
1 month ago

Why Are So Many Movies About Kidnappings Right Now?

Contemporary hostage films use captivity to interrogate power imbalances, allowing marginalized figures to confront untouchable elites and reflect wider social anxieties.
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

'A whole new experience of Kubrick' - Harvard Gazette

I'm thrilled with any chance to collaborate with the Harvard Film Archive and to make use of Harvard's collection. I've taught several of Kubrick's films in different courses over the years, but never all of them together and never on the big screen. It is a unique opportunity. The HFA is one of Harvard's treasures. I'm really grateful to them for making this happen.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

'Dead Man's Wire' Proves Gus Van Sant Movies Still Matter

Dead Man's Wire is a taut, timely crime thriller and strong Gus Van Sant comeback dramatizing a 1977 three-day hostage standoff with crowd-pleasing energy.
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fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Save Over 50% On David Lynch's Dune Adaptation On 4K Blu-Ray

Arrow Video's 4K Blu-ray of David Lynch's 1984 Dune is heavily discounted on Amazon, with multiple Dune 4K editions available at reduced prices.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

"The Psychological Horror of Being a 13-Year-Old": Charlie Polinger on The Plague

After spotting that Eli's rash guard conceals a red, flaky skin disorder, the boys have concluded that he has the titular plague, a contagious disease that affects social standing as much as it does dermatological well-being. If anyone ever touches him, they must thoroughly wash themselves before they're considered full-blown infected. Even something as innocent as Eli sitting at the same lunch table sends his teammates running and screaming.
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fromBuzzFeed
2 months ago

Sorry, Only People Who Grew Up In The '80s Can Identify These Movies By Their Blurred Posters

A 15-question quiz challenges players to identify iconic blurred '80s movie posters, testing visual recognition and nostalgia-driven memory.
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Alejandro Jodorowsky, the immortal artist: I've been thinking about death since the day I was born'

Jodorowsky's most recent project is Alejandro Jodorowsky. Art Sin Fin (Taschen), two volumes in which he reviews his career, almost as boundless as it is surreal. Curated by editor and academic Donatien Grau, director of contemporary programs at the Louvre, this monograph is a work of art in itself and a manifesto that captures Jodorowsky's kaleidoscopic, mysterious, and dreamlike creative spirit across all his universes, from film and theater to poetry and comics, by way of philosophy and tarot.
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fromAnOther
2 months ago

How Richard Linklater Recreated the Magic of The French New Wave

Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague meticulously recreates 1959 French New Wave filmmakers, celebrating Cahiers du Cinéma's community with detailed casting, sets, and emotional authenticity.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

The Unknown: A Filmmaker's Search for Lost Connections

Filmmaker Simplice Ganou, from Burkina Faso, spends his time documenting people and relationships, but when he travels to Winterthur, Switzerland, he faces a new challenge: nobody wants to talk to him.
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fromKqed
2 months ago

'Dead Man's Wire' Is a Retro Thriller That's Pertinent to the Present

Dead Man's Wire channels Dog Day Afternoon's righteous rage and contemporary echoes, propelled by Bill Skarsgård's intense performance and critique of media spectacle and capitalism.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Guide #227: A brain-melting sci-fi movie marathon, curated by Britain's best cult film-maker

Ben Wheatley is a cult-status British director whose DIY sci-fi-noir Bulk blends experimental techniques, low-budget effects, and a UK–Ireland independent cinema tour.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

We thought Midnight Cowboy might end everybody's career': the diverse, disruptive, Oscar-winning cinema of John Schlesinger

The esteemed film-maker was licking his wounds: his most recent picture, Far from the Madding Crowd, which imbued its 19th-century rural characters with an anachronistic King's Road style and panache, had flopped stateside. Childers approached the date with mixed feelings. He adored Schlesinger's previous movie, the jazzy Darling, starring Julie Christie as a model on the make, and had seen it three times.
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fromAnOther
2 months ago

How to Get Into Bela Tarr, a Master of Slow Cinema

Béla Tarr crafted influential, politically engaged cinema evolving from Budapest-school realism to slow cinema's long takes, leaving a formidable artistic legacy.
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fromThe Independent
2 months ago

Little Rascals star who left Hollywood says he is now a 'radical Catholic extremist'

Bug Hall left Hollywood in 2020, embraced off-grid living, took a vow of poverty, and identifies as a 'radical Catholic extremist'.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

"Crime 101" Is an Enjoyably Moody Exercise in Michael Mann Lite

Crime 101 blends strong noir elements and coastal motifs with an uneven, cliché-prone depiction of Los Angeles.
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fromInverse
2 months ago

How The Most Ambitious Vampire Movie Of The Year Found Its Secret Weapon

Justin Long humanizes morally ambiguous, narcissistic characters by exploring their self-justifications, making audiences partially complicit in their downfall.
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Tattle TV has turned a Hitchcock classic into a vertical video 'microdrama'

Though Tattle TV - a UK-based streaming platform created by filmmakers Philip McGoldrick and Marina Elderton - features a reality dating series about dog-owners and a modern drama about a female MMA fighter, the company's latest debut is a vertically-oriented edit of Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. Similar to other microdrama apps, Tattle TV splits all of its content into short segments that can be purchased individually using an in-app currency (Tattle Coins).
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