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Animal Attraction: Monogamy Is Tested In ‘A Bigger Splash’&‘The Lobster’
Tilda Swinton is a rock star. Few serious film fans would argue with this, but in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, it’s literally true. Swinton plays Marianne Lane, a musician who appears to be some...
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Where You Live.
Where you live. Where you learn. Where you pray. Where you drink. It’s happened again. We ask questions like, “How could this happen?” “When does this end?” and “What can we do?” and the answers are:...
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Eye Of The Beholder: Beauty Bares Its Teeth In ‘The Neon Demon’
I’ve seen a lot of movies. A lot of them contain some pretty shocking stuff. I don’t necessarily like gore or explicitly disturbing subject matter, but my cinematic journeys often lead me toward such...
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Oops, She’s Still Got It: Britney Spears’‘Glory’ Actually Is Glorious
What a relief: we don’t have to worry about Britney Spears anymore. Britney’s had her much-publicized ups and downs — both in her personal life and her musical career, though not necessarily at the...
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The Perils Of Being A Wallflower: Outcasts Pay The Price In ‘Indignation’
Forgive me. I know it seems much too early to talk about the Oscars, but we’re getting into that time of year now. So far, 2016 has been all but entirely barren of buzzworthy performances. I have a...
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When We Were Young Podcast, Episode 1: We Got Cows!
Hold on to something! The When We Were Young podcast’s pilot episode glances back at everyone’s favorite cow-tossing summer blockbuster, Twister, to see if the windiest divorce drama of all time holds...
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When We Were Young, Episode 2: A Serious Cackling
In October of 1994, three podcasters disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland. Police were baffled by the podcasters’ vanishing… mostly because they did not yet know what a podcast was. A...
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When We Were Young: What’s The Best Piece Of Pop Culture From The 80s & 90s?
Hello, friends! We’ve now aired three episodes of the When We Were Young podcast, which means it’s officially time to start uselessly ranking things. That’s right — because I am a millennial (barely),...
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Harmonious And Productive (When We Were Young, Episode 3)
A competent, ambitious, and some-might-say-chilly blonde who thinks she’s got this election in the bag goes up against unlikely opponents who are unqualified and uninformed, but hold an anarchic appeal...
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Black, White & Wed: A Difficult Year Gets Some Much-Needed ‘Loving’
It’s impossible to ignore the year 2016 when talking about Loving, a film that takes place between 1958 and 1967 and depicts the lives of the titular couple at the center of one of the Supreme Court’s...
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Monsters In Moonlight: The Year’s Best Dramas Come Out To Play
The “coming out” film has been the cornerstone of queer cinema for at least a couple of decades. For all the progress the LGB… (sorry, I’ve lost track of how many letters are supposed to be attached to...
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Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That (When We Were Young, Episode 4)
“I didn’t know she had a pony! How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant’s going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants...
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Stronger Together: Amy Adams Anchors ‘Nocturnal Animals’&‘Arrival’
Since no studio executive can see into the future, it is impossible to to know if the right date has been selected to launch a film. Sure, 4th of July weekend was a pretty savvy time to release...
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Welcome To Being Dead (When We Were Young, Episode 5)
“But there are no cats in America And the streets are paved with cheese. Oh, there are no cats in America So set your mind at ease…” Hey, kids! Do you like cartoon mice? Catchy songs? And lots and...
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Song As Old As Rhyme (When We Were Young, Episode 6)
“Tale as old as time True as it can be Barely even friends Then somebody bends Unexpectedly. Just a little change Small to say the least Both a little scared Neither one prepared Beauty and the Beast…”...
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Ehh ‘La La’: Damien Chazelle’s Sun-Soaked Ode To A City of Stars
Los Angeles is a city paradoxically known for two things: its sun and its stars. Most of La La Land‘s musical moments revolve around one or the other. For months now, the follow-up from the...
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Love In A Hopeless Place: ‘Jackie’ Is A Requiem For The American Dream
She remembers how hot the sun was in Dallas, and the crowds — greater and wilder than the crowds in Mexico or in Vienna. The sun was blinding, streaming down; yet she could not put on sunglasses for...
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Some Wes Carpenter Flick (When We Were Young, Episode 7)
Hello, Sidney. Do you like scary movies? What’s your favorite scary movie? If you grew up in the 90s, there’s a good chance your answer to that question is Scream. In Episode 7, we plunge bone-deep...
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Trauma Queen: Isabelle Huppert Leads The Rest Of The Best Actresses
In the movies, if not so much in life, 2016 has turned out to be a very good year for the ladies. While the Best Actor race is suffering from a dearth of truly exciting performances in 2016, the Best...
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I Gave My Panties To A Geek (When We Were Young, Episode 8)
Your first crush. Detention. The prom. That time your entire extended family was horrendously racist toward a foreign exchange student. In Episode 8, When We Were Young takes you back to simpler times...
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