Month: August 2018
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Video: Scream Factory and In the Mouth of Madness
In this vlog, Craig and Mitch talk about Scream Factory’s boutique home video line, and the release of John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness.
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JEANNE DIELMAN or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Boredom
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is one of the most challenging, celebrated films in history. Also, boring. But boring isn’t always bad. The average North American watches an average of 304 minutes of television per day. That’s 2,128 per week, 9,120 per month, and 110,960 per year. With televisions passively glanced at…
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24 x 36: A Movie About Movie Posters
While it begs for a sequel that digs a bit deeper, film and design nerds will love this documentary about the creation of movie posters. Film posters used to be exciting. They weren’t merely photos of the stars dressed in costumes layered on top of each other with the film’s name underneath, they were luscious…
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Sharp Objects
You think HBO’s Sharp Objects is boring? No, man — YOU’RE boring. Deliberately paced Sharp Objects is one of the best shows of the year. Many casual TV viewers will call Sharp Objects “boring.” I think Jean-Marc Vallee and Co. should take that as a compliment. It is, after all, surely accurate to describe the…
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Batman #50 (Spoiler-free!)
Proving he is a better reviewer than the NY Times, The Riz’s takes on the challenge of penning a NON-SPOILER FILLED review of Batman #50. (The only “spoiler” detail has to do with weddings themselves. If you have never been to a wedding, and want a surprise, then you may want to skip paragraph five.)…
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Crazy Rich Asians
We’re not sure how we feel about the appropriateness of the title, Crazy Rich Asians, but it’s a movie you can go see. Dan did. There is little new or inspired about the basic plot and structure of Crazy Rich Asians. The movie features what are really the same romantic-comedy genre tropes we’ve known for…
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Video: Your First Concert – Craig and Mitch
Craig and Mitch discuss their first concerts. Mitch admits to something that has shamed him since he was a boy, but created a music fan.
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Foxing – Nearer My God
Foxing’s new album, ‘Nearer My God,’ comes at a time where some think the state of the world makes music ripe for an emo revival. “I’d sell my soul…” frontman Conor Murphy careens, “to be America’s pool boy.” Dripping in self-deprecation, the emo skeptics of the world might shrug at this line out of context,…
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BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee is back with one of his best film in years, the sort of true story of Ron Stallworth and the Ku Klux Klan. The fascinating case of Detective Ron Stallworth in 1970s Colorado is no exception to the rule that truth is stranger than fiction. In this movie, the bones of Stallworth’s true…
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Avengers: Infinity War – The Blu-ray Release
We check out the new blu-ray release of Avengers: Infinity War. Disney is doing a bang up job of bringing back physical media special features. One of the most widely anticipated blu-rays of the year landed in my hot little hands last week — Avengers: Infinity War. It comes out Tuesday, August 14th on blu-ray…