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Netflix’s Tug-of-War with Quantity and Quality
Netflix’s Tug-of-War with Quantity and Quality

Netflix’s appeal greatly relies on its large variety of titles and currently displays 13,900 films and television shows across all international libraries.

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Naomi BarghielJanuary 12, 2021Comment
You should watch bad films.
You should watch bad films.

Here are 3 reasons you should stomach a steady diet of crummy motion pictures, especially if you are an artist yourself.

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Julia RodriguezJanuary 11, 2021 Comments
Wong Kar Wai and the Feelings We Can’t Escape
Wong Kar Wai and the Feelings We Can’t Escape

7 new Wong Kar Wai restorations that find unique ways to externalize characters’ interior lives while they attempt to escape their own minds and hearts.

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Nick BachanJanuary 9, 2021Comment
WHITE LIE: A Coup de Grâce for Childish Things
WHITE LIE: A Coup de Grâce for Childish Things

The moment you step into this world, you’ve surrendered to gravity, accelerating towards terminal velocity and the waiting earth’s implacable embrace.

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David MJanuary 7, 2021Comment
Dreamscapes on Celluloid: 5 Movies that Exist on the Edge of My Imagination
Dreamscapes on Celluloid: 5 Movies that Exist on the Edge of My Imagination

I'm always drawn to movies where my mind is forced to fill in the blanks, crafting my own movie in my head as I watched the images flash on screen.

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Vikrant NallaparajuJanuary 6, 2021Comment
Crème de la Cinema: Favorite First Watches in this Too Long Quarantine Year of Our Lordt 2020
Crème de la Cinema: Favorite First Watches in this Too Long Quarantine Year of Our Lordt 2020

Throw on these nuggets for guaranteed quality while counting down for a vaccine.

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Patrick PryorJanuary 5, 2021Comment
More Feelings #2: New Year, Still Watching
More Feelings #2: New Year, Still Watching

My end-of-year viewing habits, just like my snack choices after 11:00 PM, are purely emotional.

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Nick BachanJanuary 4, 2021Comment
This Christmas, Celebrate Jesus With ASSASSIN 33 A.D.
This Christmas, Celebrate Jesus With ASSASSIN 33 A.D.

For my money, the greatest thing about movies is that they can be about whatever you want.

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Morgan HydeDecember 21, 2020 Comment
Morgan's Top 10 Not-Boring Films of 2020
Morgan's Top 10 Not-Boring Films of 2020

I live my life by a simple rule: no boring movies.

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Morgan HydeDecember 20, 2020Comment
More Feelings #1
More Feelings #1

In this bi-weekly column, I’ll share the kinds of things I’d tell you if we just walked out of a movie theater after watching something together.

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Nick BachanDecember 19, 2020Comment
Queer Teenage Wasteland: Three Films by Gregg Araki
Queer Teenage Wasteland: Three Films by Gregg Araki

Live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse.

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Margeaux LabatDecember 17, 2020Comment
76 DAYS at the Beginning of a Pandemic
76 DAYS at the Beginning of a Pandemic

A documentary that achieves the unexpected: a depiction of true terror as a baseline for reinforcing our collective human potential.

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Nick BachanDecember 16, 2020Comment
Less Doing, More Talking: SHITHOUSE and 4 Other Movies Where Two People Just Talk
Less Doing, More Talking: SHITHOUSE and 4 Other Movies Where Two People Just Talk

Turn on one of these blissfully talkative movies and join me in praying for the days when we can meet strangers again and spend hours in conversation with them.

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Sandra AmstutzDecember 15, 2020 Comment
"I Feel Like Neve Campbell”: The Neverending Purgatory of Tri-State Hustle in Tina Krause’s LIMBO
"I Feel Like Neve Campbell”: The Neverending Purgatory of Tri-State Hustle in Tina Krause’s LIMBO

Krause’s movie perfectly captures the malaise that seeps into your very bones when you’re locked into the megacity between Boston and Washington D.C. The sprawl has no soul.

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Patrick PryorDecember 14, 2020Comment
Inside the AGFA Laboratory: THINGS TO COME (1976) and THE DIRTY DOLLS (1973)
Inside the AGFA Laboratory: THINGS TO COME (1976) and THE DIRTY DOLLS (1973)

Flicks that feel like pulling into a sweaty grindhouse drive-in in the middle of summer, cheap wine in hand and cigarette smoldering. Let’s go!

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David MDecember 10, 2020Comment
Absolutely Stylish: 5 Fashion Documentaries Worth Watching
Absolutely Stylish: 5 Fashion Documentaries Worth Watching

Discover some of today’s biggest fashion icons’ paths to legendary status.

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Rach JDecember 9, 2020Comment
Austin Polish Film Festival 2020: PROCEDER
Austin Polish Film Festival 2020: PROCEDER

“Be a fucking Count of Monte Cristo style.” Get your bags Chada!

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David MDecember 8, 2020Comment
An Unsung Horrors Christmas Movie Marathon
An Unsung Horrors Christmas Movie Marathon

8 deeeeep cut Christmas treasures streaming for free! Sugarplum the depths of madness!

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Erica ShultzDecember 7, 2020Comment
Austin Polish Film Festival 2020: TRIPLE TROUBLE / TARAPATY 2
Austin Polish Film Festival 2020: TRIPLE TROUBLE / TARAPATY 2

A bomb explodes behind a famed painting on opening night. Julka and Olek, a sleuth-y young pair and maybe teenage sweethearts, are on the case.

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David MDecember 5, 2020Comment
Austin Polish Film Festival 2020: I AM REN / JESTEM REN
Austin Polish Film Festival 2020: I AM REN / JESTEM REN

Whether you’re an android made by human hand or a human made by a hand further on up the chain of existence, holding the keys to your own truth is critical to survival.

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David MDecember 4, 2020Comment
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