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Episode 345 – BLACK BAG, “The Lying Comes Honestly” Talkin’ Steven Soderbergh’s new film with Kurt Halfyard

New #Matineecast this morning - and a question:
Are you more likely to listen to a podcast BEFORE you see a film (especially a film you might not know about), or AFTER?
#FilmSky #PodcastSky
www.thematinee.ca/episode345/

31.03.2025 12:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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On David Lynch It's not often that the team at ScreenAnarchy feels a loss like we have with David Lynch. And we're not alone; since last Thursday, I've seen an outpouring of love, sadness, and rememberin...

Some of the @screenanarchy.bsky.social team got together and wrote our thoughts about David Lynch. From me, @ardvark23.bsky.social @triflic.bsky.social @anotherkylel.bsky.social & others screenanarchy.com/2025/01/on-d...

27.01.2025 17:04 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Toronto 2024 Review: THE BRUTALIST, Grand and Unexpected Cinematic Epic Out of the gate with its Vista-Vision logo and overture, The Brutalist promises the kind of grand Hollywood epic, and old-school cinematic hubris, that more or less went away 40 years ago with Micheal Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate and Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A…
07.09.2024 02:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Fantasia 2024: SINCOPAT, Short Film Short Review During the opening credits of short film, Sincopat, many festival laurels are initially displayed onscreen. Then, following a loud ‘bang’ on the soundtrack, several dozen more appear. This is a first for me, but it is in sync with the aural focus of the…
24.07.2024 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Fantasia 2024 Review: SCARED SHITLESS, A Creature Feature Worth Taking The Plunge A friend of mine, an astute and well travelled film-lover, once told me their ‘big theory’ of audience engagement for most movies: The viewer will like the movie more if the main character is simply good at doing their job. In Scared Shitless, Don the…
23.07.2024 21:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Friday One Sheet: THE SECOND This beautiful watercolour poster for Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos's The Second is hiding a subtle secret in plain sight. The short film centres around a pistols-at-dawn kind of duel, and the underlying complexity of motivations across two generations. The…
26.07.2024 16:57 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Adam Wingard's fantastic "You're Next" is getting a new 4K Collectors Edition release from Second Sight in August - Steelbook Blu-ray News The brilliant You’re Next is getting the well-deserved Second Sight treatment with this new 4K release, due on August 19th. Pre-orders are live right now....

13 or so years ago l, Adam Wingard’s home invasion horror YOU’RE NEXT blew the roof off the RYERSON theatre. Ecstatic to contribute a booklet essay (along with @bonnequin.bsky.social and @suspirialexx.bsky.social ) for Second Sight’s 4K special edition.

www.steelbookbluray.com/adam-wingard...

25.07.2024 14:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fantasia 2024 Review: GHOST CAT ANZU, Farts in the General Direction of Studio Ghibli To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met....

Perhaps worth sharing for its headline alone:

screenanarchy.com/2024/07/fant...

25.07.2024 03:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just cause:

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08.04.2024 18:51 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A still from the 1989 movie THE 'BURBS, in which neighbors Art and Ray scream in terror after finding a leg bone in the suspicious Klopeks' yard.

A still from the 1989 movie THE 'BURBS, in which neighbors Art and Ray scream in terror after finding a leg bone in the suspicious Klopeks' yard.

In today's blog, we celebrate the 35th anniversary of THE 'BURBS, Joe Dante's horror-farce of Cold War paranoia and un-neighborliness. Featuring selected works from @triflic.bsky.social / Brent Yergensen / Scott Haden Church / Angus McFadzean. #horror #joedante
horrorlex.com/blog/3-great...

24.02.2024 17:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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DUNE: PART TWO Review: Still Handsome. Still Obligatory. Stilgar. If it does nothing else, Dune: Part Two completes the circle of the Fatboy Slim-Arrakis EU.   By opening with Christopher Walken’s Emperor Of The Known Universe, this might just be the quirkiest, and most unexpectedly sly, thing about the movie — even if…
01.03.2024 16:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Bailey could give up a portion of his ridiculously over priced salary for the organizations sustainability…

12.01.2024 05:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE PIGEON TUNNEL Review: Heady Swirl of Conversation on History and Lies
Errol Morris directs John le Carré's final and most personal interview. From @triflic.bsky.social screenanarchy.com/2023/10/the-...

19.10.2023 21:24 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Glazer is a treasure. Can’t wait to see this next Thursday.

03.09.2023 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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