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Together REVIEW - Body-Horror Tango - The Fiction Department Viscerally effective but narratively stretched beyond its limits, director Michael Shanks’ debut feature, Together, succeeds as a darkly funny look at

Viscerally effective but narratively stretched beyond its limits, director Michael Shanks’ debut feature, Together, succeeds as a darkly funny look at codependency taken to outlandish extremes. thefictiondepartment.com/together-rev... #filmsky

Ari Aster's Latest 'Eddington' Is a Frenzied, Absorbing Nightmare - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

Had to think about it a while, but I ended up really enjoying"Eddington." poplifestl.com/ari-asters-l... #filmsky

'Afternoons of Solitude' Is a Fascinating, Unnerving Look at the Abyss - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

Yeah, another masterpiece incoming. Screening this weekend @wufilmseries.bsky.social ! poplifestl.com/afternoons-o... #filmsky

Eva Victor's 'Sorry, Baby' Is A Powerful Meditation on Pain and Healing - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

"Sorry, Baby" is one of the year's best films so far. poplifestl.com/sorry-baby-i... #filmsky

James Gunn Mostly Saves the Day in 'Superman' as Big-Hearted Comic Book Spectacle - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

Not quite "super," but pretty good. #filmsky poplifestl.com/james-gunn-m...

Boyle and Garland Deliver Outstanding Sequel '28 Years Later' That's Thrillingly Alive - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

At last, after what seems like 28 years later after the movie released, here's my review of "28 Years Later." poplifestl.com/boyle-and-ga...

Here's my New York Times Reader's Choice ballot for the best movies of the 21st century so far. Tough choices. Surprised they didn't have David Fincher's "The Killer" in their system...
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'The Life of Chuck' Is a Glossy and Frustrating Exercise in Style Over Substance - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

Happy No Kings Day (fuck Cheeto Mussolini), but, uh, here's my review of the mediocre "The Life of Chuck." poplifestl.com/the-life-of-...

Favorite films of 2025 so far (unranked):
- Black Bag
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
- Misericordia
- Eephus
- Sinners
- Blue Sun Palace
- April
-Caught by the Tides
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Mid-Tier Wes Anderson 'The Phoenician Scheme' Is Enjoyably Chaotic - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

Wes Anderson being Wes Anderson. Which is good! poplifestl.com/mid-tier-wes...

Screening at @wufilmseries.bsky.social !

'April' Is A Difficult Yet Profound Look At Injustice And Resistance - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

I'll be thinking about this film for a long time. #filmsky poplifestl.com/april-is-a-d...

Cruise Goes All-Out in Nostalgic, High-Octane Blockbuster 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning' - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

Mission: Possible – I Am Entertained poplifestl.com/cruise-goes-...

Ensemble Shines in Ambitious, Full-Hearted Directorial Debut 'We Were Dangerous' - Pop Life STL A sincere and impressively well-acted reminder of the power of community to persevere through adversity, director Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu’s debut feature,

We Were Dangerous – Movie Was Good. poplifestl.com/ensemble-shi...

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky

TONIGHT this season's Frederick Wiseman retrospective continues with his 1990 effort CENTRAL PARK, showing at 7:00pm! No trailers, so expect Central Park itself on our screen at 7 sharp. Sponsored by The Take-Up.

Jeffrey Wright: American films and other cultural output do enhance national security. The stories we tell and the music we make bring the world closer to us, like nothing else. Soft power. Post-WWil, through ill-conceived wars, the US military, unfortunately, has tended to have the opposite effect. So rather than whipping out his tariffs again, which will do nothing to reduce production costs at home, this dumb mf could, for example, suggest that the federal government match state-level tax credits to compete with foreign jurisdictions and incentivize film production/job sustainability in the US. But no, he'd rather boost the defense budget to 1 trillion(!!) $$$, as his regime just proposed, decimate funding for the arts and whine like a stuck pig, squealing out indecipherable nonsense like this, a stupid mf. Fucking idiot never met a problem he couldn't make worse. Signed, an actor who just landed in London to go to work

I get that people are upset about Trump being Trump and going after movies, but nothing we say here is going to do anything. Want to help? Put money into that ecosystem. Go see a foreign film in a theater this week, get them charting on streaming services, buy discs.

if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.

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Frederick Wiseman supremacy.

'Misericordia' Is An Entertaining, If Bizarre, Drama of Desire - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

Definitely wasn’t miserable watching Misericordia! poplifestl.com/misericordia...

Wow.

'Death of a Unicorn' Is A Horror Satire That's Not Quite Sharp Enough - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

Death of a Unicorn... Moderate Boredom of Alex. poplifestl.com/death-of-a-u...

Soderbergh Delivers a First-Rate Spy Drama in 'Black Bag' - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

A rainy weekend means it's time for another rewatch of "Black Bag." poplifestl.com/soderbergh-d...

This week at Arkadin Cinema!

Before this series, the only Wiseman I'd seen was "Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros." These are some of the most soul-shaking documentaries ever...

Hard Truths! Hundreds of Beavers!! Good One!!!

Bloody Horror-Comedy 'The Monkey' is Entertaining and Nihilistic - Pop Life STL By Alex McPherson

Struggled with "The Monkey," but it's an interesting watch regardless. poplifestl.com/bloody-horro...