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Deep Blue Sea, Chapter 11: Sowing Chaos | Deep Blue Sea The Podcast
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Jay and Mark are joined by Matthew Simpson from Awesome Friday (@SMatthewAF and @awesomefridayca on X) to discuss “Untimely Jam” the 11th chapter of DBS. In this episode, they also talk about big waves, helicopters in creature features, and Renny films that should be in the Criterion collection. Enjoy! This week, I joined Deep Blue…
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Daredevil: Born Again | That Shelf
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Before the days of Disney+, Marvel Studios struck a deal with Netflix to bring several of their street-level heroes to the small screen. There were several, but the first of them was Daredevil, a master acrobat and vigilante who wears a red combat suit adorned with devil’s horns and who is, by day, a blind…
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Small Achievable Goals | That Shelf
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Two coworkers, one a little uptight and by the book and the other perhaps a little too loose for their own good, have their fates and jobs intertwined by happenstance. Then, hilarity—with a dash of honesty and vulnerability—ensues. This is the tried-and-true setup of Small Achievable Goals, a…
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29th Annual Online Film & Television Association Film Award Winners
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This is my second year as a voting member of OFTA, and this years awards are now announced! The Online Film & Television Association has selected Anora as 2024’s best film. In addition, it was presented two other prizes. Sean Baker’s film about a exotic dancer who marries a Russian playboy who isn’t allowed to do…
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‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ Hits Like a Ton of Bricks | Exclaim!
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We’ve seen many films with protagonists haunted by their trauma and soldiers struggling to return home before; what sets My Dead Friend Zoeapart is its performances, specifically Sonequa Martin-Green’s. She proves herself beyond a shadow of a doubt, playing Merit constantly under stress, not only from what’s going on in her world but from Zoe’s…
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Sebastian Stan Stands Out, Adam Pearson Wins Audiences Over In “A Different Man” | ForReel
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…This first layer of the story is fascinating, with Stan playing Edwrard playing Guy playing Edward, and crushing it. He threads a precise needle with this performance in which he is very visibly still the same man he was but can project confidence while never letting anyone know whom he was before –even going…
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Win or Lose Season 1 Episode 1-4 Review | KeithLovesMovies
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It’s hard to believe that Disney+ is now five years old, and it has yet to feature a series from Pixar. Films are both short and feature-length, yes, but while effectively every other branch of the Disney empire has branched out into streaming series, Pixar has taken the longest to arrive. It’s shocking not only because…
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Movie Review: Gripping Thriller “September 5” Lead By Strong Performance From John Magaro | ForReel
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Everything that happens has happened for a first time. Terrorism as we know it has been with us since the late 18th century, but on September 5th, 1972, something happened for the first time. As the Palestinian militant group Black September stormed the Munich Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli team and…
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Parthenope – Overly Distracted By Its Own Beauty | KeithLovesMovies
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Paolo Sorrentino has made a name for himself by telling wistful, dreamlike stories about beautiful people existing in beautiful places. His latest film, Parthenope, is not an exception to this trend. Following the life of a young woman from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, as she lives and loves around Naples, Sorrentino seems…
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‘The Gorge’ Is Promising but Empty | Exclaim!
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In the earliest scenes of The Gorge, we meet our two protagonists, Levi (Miles Teller) and Drasa (Anya Taylor-Joy). Levi, a former Marine scout sniper, lives a life of solitude, wayward and clearly suffering from some form of PTSD. He receives a text telling him to report to a Marine base where he’s interviewed by…
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‘Disco’s Revenge’ Gets the Last Laugh | Exclaim!
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Disco was a dirty word, at least when I was a teenager in the 1990s. It was an exiled musical style from a bygone era, only spoken about to ridicule. Even when the 20-year fashion cycle caught up to us and made bell-bottom — apologies, flared — cool again, we didn’t dare speak favourably of disco…
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Kind Hearts and Coronets | The LAMBCast
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Who would have thought that we’d get back to back MOTM Episodes? That happened because we had no show the first week of February and with a short month, things sneak up on you. This month all of the choices for MOTM were provided by the host,, it is his birthday month and that’s…
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‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Stands Alongside Animated Superhero Classics | Exclaim!
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Spider-Man endures as one of the most iconic and relatable superheroes. He starts his journey when he’s just a kid, learning hard lessons early about the nature of responsibility — everyone knows the quote — and he spends his time trying to balance his normal life with his superhero life, to varying degrees of…
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Possession | The LAMBCast
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Famous for it’s disturbing scene set in a subway station, “Possession” is the 1981 film from Polish Director Andrzej Żuławski. Is it a horror film, a psychological drama, or an autobiographical cry for help from a man going through a painful breakup? Whatever answer you come up with, you will still have to say…
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Star Trek: Section 31 Review: Fun characters and dazzling tech aren’t enough to save this uneven entry | That Shelf
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Star Trek is one of the greatest pop culture franchises on the planet. It has been running for nearly 60 years, spanning more than 700 television episodes across ten series and thirteen—now fourteen—movies. It is a ubiquitous cultural touchstone that many people hold dear, this critic included. The beauty of the franchise is that it works…