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"Next time, when they ask you where you’re from / You gonna say Detroit city, when we get back on our feet." There's been a groundswell of interest in the historically moribund Detroit Lions franchise ever since the world was introduced to their fiery, musclebound head coach Dan Campbell in the 2022 season of Hard Knocks, but now the Lions are...
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The Hulu comedy Self Reliance not only marks Jake Johnson's directorial debut, but also spotlights Johnson as Tommy, a man truly down on his luck. After being approached by none other than Andy Samberg in a limo, Tommy opts to compete in an obscure reality show where he must evade people that are out to kill him. While his family expresses their...
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Netflix's Carol and the End of the World is an adult animated comedy that follows an awkward woman during an apocalyptic event. While the people around her make decisions in the heat of the moment and decide to live out their best lives before the expected end of the civilization, Carol longs for normality. The titular character continues to go...
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I may be late to the game when it comes to catching up on Only Murders in the Building, but if you're like me and haven't hit play until just recently, I highly recommend you do. The highly revered Hulu murder mystery comedy — which has been renewed for a fourth season — introduced both Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd to its Season 3 cast. Of...
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Oh, Hello is the outrageous creation on Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who play crotchety New York City seniors Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, respectively. The Netflix film, which is a recording of their popular Broadway show, follows the two geriatrics as they share everything from their terrifying love of Alan Alda to their thoughts on all...
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I've long believed there are two types of people in this world: those who like Gremlins, and those who like Gremlins 2. And as a corollary to that theory, those who like Gremlins 2 better are flat-out wrong. I'm not here to recant my previous statements, because Gremlins 2, even decades later, still seems like a movie made by people who hate...
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Harmony Korine has forged a wholly unique career path since first coming to everyone's attention back in 1995 thanks to KIDS, the movie he wrote as an 18-year-old that scared the bejeezus out of Disney and the rest of the old guard cinema establishment. (It was so controversial that, to this day, no distributors are brave enough to carry it on...
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Just because it's not spooky season doesn't mean you can't watch a scary movie. And there's no better one to check out than Michael Dougherty's wickedly twisty anthology film Trick 'r Treat. Starring Brian Cox, Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin, and many more, the Halloween night set story follows various characters as they encounter supernatural ends in...
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The stealth hit horror movie from A24 is worth the hype. Written and directed by YouTube stars Danny and Michael Philippou, the movie focuses on a group of teens obsessed with the hand of a psychic that allows you to commune with ghosts. Naturally, things go wrong in shockingly gruesome ways that will make you squirm in disgust. But the real...
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