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Ali G Back in Da House

October 28, 2026October 27, 2026 Gordon Haber 0 Comments Ali G, Ali G: Who Iz I?, Amazon Prime Video, American immigration politics, American politics, Antisemitism, BBC, Borat, british comedy, British television, Bruno, cancel culture, comedy controversy, comedy ethics, comedy film, cringe comedy, cruelty in comedy, cultural appropriation, Da Ali G Show, Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello, Erran Morad, George Santos, gross-out comedy, HBO, hidden camera comedy, identity politics, immigration, Milgram experiment, Morgana Robinson, movie review, Newt Gingrich, political correctness, political polarization, political satire, prank comedy, Rachel Dolezal, racism, Sacha Baron Cohen, satire, shock humor, social justice warriors, social satire, Staines, Tony Benn, woke culture

Sacha Baron Cohen brings some harsh, funny pranks in ‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’

Facebook Is on Trial Again in ‘The Social Reckoning’

October 11, 2026October 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments **CSV tag list:** Aaron Sorkin, AI, algorithms, Artificial, Betty Gilpin, Bill Burr, Billy Magnussen, Capitol attack, David Fincher, extremism, Facebook, Frances Haugen, investigative journalism, January 6, Jeff Horwitz, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Luca Guadagnino, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Mikey Madison, misinformation, movie review, Sam Altman, Silicon Valley, social media, tech industry, The Social Network, The Social Reckoning, Wunmi Mosaku

Aaron Sorkin’s new film crackles with dialogue, but can he justify reopening a 2021 case?

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Somebody Give ‘La Bola Negra’ the Nobel Prize Already

October 9, 2026November 1, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 1 Comment Federico Garcia Lorca, foreign films, Glenn Close, Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo, La Bola Negra, LGBTQ films, Los Javis, movie review, Oscar contender, Penelope Cruz, queer cinema, Spanish cinema, Spanish Civil War, The Black Ball

Los Javis have created a piece of living poetry that transcends language and time

CLASSICS Featured Stories FILM

‘Colossus’ the Film that Foretold the AI War

October 4, 2026October 7, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments 1970 films, AI, AI safety, Apollo 13, artificial intelligence, classic cinema, Cold War, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Control Data Corporation, D.F. Jones, dystopian films, Eric Braeden, Gordon Pinsent, James Bridges, Lawrence Hall of Science, movie review, sci-fi films, science fiction, supercomputers, Susan Clark, The China Syndrome, Will Schallert

A prophetic all-star team from 1970 has been overlooked

Featured Stories FILM

We Finally Get To See Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Decade-Long Project, ‘Digger’

October 2, 2026October 7, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Alejandro González Iñárritu, climate change, Digger, disaster movie, Dr. Strangelove, environmental thriller, Francis Ford Coppola, global warming, Jesse Plemons, John Goodman, Megalopolis, Michael Stuhlbarg, movie review, oil industry, political satire, Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, satire, science fiction, Tom Cruise, VistaVision

Tom Cruise fully invests in his role alongside Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg. and Jesse Plemons

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Check Out Boeing in ‘Freefall’

September 23, 2026September 28, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 737 MAX, 737 MAX 9, Airbus, aircraft manufacturing, Alaska Airlines, aviation, aviation safety, Boeing, capitalism, commercial aviation, corporate accountability, corporate culture, documentary, documentary films, engineering, film review, Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing, John Barnett, movie review, Netflix, Netflix documentary, plane crashes, quality control, Rory Kennedy, safety, whistleblowers

New documentary show crashes don’t come from just one lil’ engineering failure

There’s Nothing ‘Normal’ About Bob Odenkirk

September 21, 2026September 14, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments action comedy, action film, Ben Wheatley, Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk, Bob Odenkirk movies, Brendan Fletcher, crime thriller, Derek Kolstad, Henry Winkler, independent film, Jess McLeod, John Wick, John Wick creator, Lena Headey, movie review, Nobody, Normal, Peter Shinkoda, yakuza

‘Nobody’ and ‘John Wick’ creator Derek Kolstad throws up a Minnesotan action comedy

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A Spinoza professor undergoes an existential crisis in ‘The Basics of Philosophy’

September 8, 2026September 11, 2026 Austin Tannenbaum 0 Comments art house cinema, Baruch Spinoza, Bill Pullman, Calvinism, Daniel Zovatto, drama, Ethics, existentialism, film review, First Reformed, Indie Film, Jack Huston, John Calvin, Karl Glusman, moral philosophy, movie review, Paul Schrader, Paul Schrader films, philosophy, predestination, Psychological Drama, religion, Sofia Boutella, Spinoza, The Basics of Philosophy, Venice Film Festival, Venice Film Festival 2026

At the Venice Film Festival, Paul Schrader Wrestles with Free Will and Determinism

Featured Stories NON-FICTION Streaming TELEVISION

There’s No Need To Hide Your ‘Lion’ Eyes

September 7, 2026September 11, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments African savanna, animal behavior, animal documentary, BBC Studios, comfort TV, coming of age, Disney, Disney documentaries, documentary series, Hans Zimmer, Jon Favreau, Kio, Lion, lions, Mike Gunton, movie review, National Geographic, nature, nature documentary, O.J. Lynch, Streaming, The Lion King, TV review, wildlife, wildlife photography

Jon Favreau brings National Geographic to Disney

‘The Whisper Man’ Deserves this Review

September 4, 2026September 4, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 14 Comments Adam Scott, Alex North, book adaptation, child abduction, crime thriller, film review, James Ashcroft, Michael Keaton, Michelle Monaghan, movie review, mystery thriller, Netflix, Netflix movies, psychological thriller, Robert De Niro, Rory Kennedy, Serial Killer, streaming movies, The Silence of the Lambs, The Whisper Man, Thrillers, True Detective

Despite Michael Keaton, Robert de Niro and Michelle Monaghan, this film is already spoiled

Don’t Wait for ‘Busboys’

September 3, 2026August 30, 2026 Robert Dean 2 Comments 2026 films, Bobby Lee, bro comedy, buddy comedy, Bus Boys, Charlotte McKinney, Chris Elliott, comedy films, Cowboy song, David Spade, film review, Hollywood comedies, Hulu, independent film, indie comedy, Jay Pharoah, Jonah Feingold, Kid Rock, movie review, offensive comedy, podcasts, Stand Up Comedy, Step Brothers, Superbad, Theo Von, Tim Dillon, Trevor Wallace

David Spade and Theo Von team up for a dumb buddy comedy

With ‘Coyote Vs. Acme,’ WB Drops the Anvil

August 30, 2026August 30, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments animation, Bugs Bunny, Coyote Vs. Acme, Daffy Duck, Dave Green, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, hybrid animation, Ian Frazier, James Gunn, Jeremy Slater, John Cena, Lana Condor, live action, Looney Tunes, movie review, Porky Pig, Road Runner, Samy Burch, The Lego Batman Movie, The Lego Movie, The New Yorker, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Animation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Wile E. Coyote, Will Forte

A set of cartoon icons gets rescued from the locker

‘Tony’ Shows Us One Pivotal Summer in the Charismatic, Tragic Life of Anthony Bourdain

August 10, 2026August 10, 2026 Laura Pruden 0 Comments A24, Anthony Bourdain, Antonio Banderas, biopic, chef, cinema, coming of age, cooking, Dominic Sessa, Emilia Jones, food, Kitchen Confidential, Leo Woodall, Matt Johnson, movie review, Provincetown, restaurants, Tony, Tony Bourdain

Chasing after a girl, a young man finds a mentor and a vocation

Featured Stories FILM SF

Smoking Hot Prudes Rock for ‘One Night Only’

August 9, 2026August 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Ben Marshall, Callum Turner, Comedy, dystopian fiction, Julia Fox, King Princess, LeVar Burton, Logan's Run, Maya Hawke, Molly Ringwald, Monica Barbaro, movie review, One Night Only, rom-com, romantic comedy, satire, science fiction, sex comedy, The Purge, Will Gluck

Authoritarian science fiction never looked so sexy

DOCUMENTARY FILM Streaming

How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Burned Down ‘The Welcome Table’

August 6, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments activism, climate change, climate crisis, climate migration, climate refugees, Copernicus, documentary, environment, Europe, France, Gasland, global warming, Greece, HBO, HBO Max, Indigenous communities, Josh Fox, Max, movie review, New Orleans, Nonfiction, Spain, sustainability, The Welcome Table, wildfires

Following climate refugees is one way of showing how climate change is having disastrous effects

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