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‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’ Review: Amazon Series Spreads Original Film’s Fornicating Food Formula Even Thinner

Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Edward Norton and much of the movie's cast return for eight episodes several years after 'Sausage Party.'

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‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’ Review: Musical Adaptation is a Promising, Boldly Unconventional Retelling Anchored by Standout Performances

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In the admirably bold, unconventionally self-aware new stage musical version of John Berendt’s 1994 blockbuster bestseller “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” transgender icon The Lady Chablis emerges from being one of many…

ABOMINABLE 2006 Bigfoot movie – reviews and free online

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‘Some things are better left unfound’ Abominable is a 2006 horror film about a man who returns to his cabin in the woods as part of his rehabilitation after he …

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Blu-ray Review: Il Tempo del Sogno (Dream Time)

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The Italian movies during the 20th Century existed in genre waves. A movie would get popular and almost overnight, Italian producers and directors were ready with a hundred films to hit the marquees with similar sounding titles. The waves…

DANDELION Review: The Road to Deciding Your Identity

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KiKi Layne and Thomas Doherty star in writer/director Nicole Riegel's dextrous, musically-themed film.

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Fly Me to the Moon review: A bright and breezy ’60s-set romcom

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The new film tries to bundle too much together in one gleaming package – but Scarlett Johansson's movie star appeal keeps it chugging along.

Sausage Party: Foodtopia TV Review

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Sausage Party: Foodtopia is an absurd and deliciously clever political satire that serves as a sequel series to the 2016 original film

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'Sunny' review: Apple TV+ series, about a robot with mystery-solving smarts, makes bold choices

Considering the sheer volume and overall quality of films and TV series available on Apple TV+, it’s almost jarring to realize the subscription streaming service was launched just five years ago. In that half-decade, the Apple Originals…

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Bushman Review: Vivid Real-Time Tale of a Nigerian’s Life in 70s America

Hidden greatness … a still from Bushman, with Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam as Gabriel and Elaine Featherstone as Alma. Photograph: Publicity image A unique 1971 work by US musician and filmmaker David Schickele, long overlooked but now restored…

Longlegs review: Do a runner from this generic horror where even Nicolas Cage is pitifully disappointing

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Despite the hype that surrounds the film, for genuine scares look elsewhere

Bushman review – amazing real-time evocation of a Nigerian’s life in 70s America

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Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam plays a lightly fictionalised version of himself in David Schickele’s restored 1971 film reflecting on race and nationality

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Review: The Fifth Seal – A Spiky Cabaret of Political Fear and Cruelty

Broodingly obsessed … The Fifth Seal. Photograph: Courtesy: Klassiki The Seventh Seal, a movie by Ingmar Bergman, hints at the apocalyptic revelation of angelic trumpeters and divine wrath. In contrast, Hungarian director Zoltán Fábri’s…

The Fifth Seal review – a spiky political cabaret of cruelty and fear

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Zoltán Fábri’s 1976 film follows military veteran Karoly in wartime Hungary as he asks fellow drinkers in a bar what they would choose: be the slave master or the slave

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BiFan 2024 Review: PIG THAT SURVIVED FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE, Grimy Korean Animation Offers Punchy Eco-Horror Parable

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Hur Bum-wook announces himself as a talent to watch with his furious and deranged animated eco-horror parable Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease. A cross between early Yeon Sang-ho animation works like The King of Pigs, Bong Joon-ho…

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Film Review – FLY ME TO THE MOON (2024): A Solid Cast Carries an Entertaining Story About Faking it Until You Make It

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Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Film Review, a movie directed by Greg Berlanti, written by Keenan Flynn, Rose Gilroy and Bill Kirstein and starring Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, Ray Romano, Jim Rash, Peter Jacobson,…

Monday, Jul 8

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‘Longlegs’ Review: The Serial Killer Drama Goes Supernatural in a Flawed but Disturbing Fairy Tale That Finds the Devil Hiding in Plain Sight

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A satanic Nicolas Cage will haunt your nightmares in Oz Perkins' breathlessly atmospheric new horror film.

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THE NATURE OF LOVE Review: A Tale of Romance, Philosophy and the Power of Classic Love Ballads

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Magalie Lépine-Blondeau and Pierre-Yves Cardinal star in French-Canadian writer-director-actor Monia Chokri's sexy new film.

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Carbon & Water review – sexual fulfilment of a gay man in his 60s is little-explored territory

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An isolated older man falls for his nurse in a well-intentioned but erratically edited film undercut by poorly written characters with lengthy, repetitive dialogues

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A Prince review – queer erotic drama of sexual enlightenment through gardening

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Pierre Creton’s literary film is about the carnal blossoming of a gardener’s apprentice under the tutelage of a series of older men

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FlixChatter Review: The Bikeriders (2024)—the bad boys Hardy + Butler are cool but it’s Comer who’s the real scene-stealer

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Though he’s only been making movies for less than two decades, Jeff Nichols has become one of my favorite contemporary filmmakers. I’ve seen four out of his six films (still need to see Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter) and loved every…