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A three-minute rundown of the best (and worst) of this week’s film releases, including the go-to movie for the weekend.
FilmWeek on AirTalk, hosted by Larry Mantle, is a one-hour weekly segment devoted to films. It offers reviews of the week's new movies, interviews with filmmakers, and discussions on various aspects of the industry.
Director Anderson Cowan (“Groupers”) and entertainment writer Greg Srisavasdi have been friends for over 25 years and now they’re yapping about movies. Anderson Has a Movie to Make and Greg is lost in Flick City. Join them on their quest to uncover Cinematic Gems that should not be missed!
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Episode 174: Kompromat, You People, Life Upside Down, Skinamarink, Argentina 1985
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Movies reviewed on CinemAddicts this week include Kompromat, You People, Life Upside Down, Skinamarink, and Argentina 1985. (0:00) - Intro (8:31) - Kompromat (19:32) - Life Upside Down (29:26) - Skinamarink (38:12) - You, People (45:12) - Kids vs. Aliens (47:15) - Argentina, 1985 (54:00) - The Drop ***Some of our links go to Amazon, and if you purc…
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FilmWeek Marquee: ‘Close,’ ‘You People’ and ‘Children Of The Mist’
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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Wade Major and Tim Cogshell review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming and on demand platforms — in three minutes or less!By KPCC 89.3
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FilmWeek: ‘Close,’ ‘You People,’ ‘Shotgun Wedding,’ ‘Infinity Pool’ And More
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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Wade Major and Tim Cogshell review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms. FilmWeek: ‘Close,’ ‘You People,’ ‘Shotgun Wedding,’ ‘Infinity Pool’ And More (0:15) “Close,” AMC The Grove & AMC Century City “You People,” IPIC Theater [Westwood] & Harkins Theater [Cerritos]; Str…
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Shotgun Wedding And What's Making Us Happy
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The Amazon Prime action comedy Shotgun Wedding delivers on its title in the sense that it's got a wedding, and it's got lots of guns. The film stars Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel as a couple whose wedding day at a beautiful resort is interrupted by pirates who take their guests hostage. Will they save the guests? Will they save themselves? Will t…
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Infinity Pool, Living, You People, Women Talking, Fear, Oscar Noms and More
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Let's argue about Oscar snubs and this week's new flicks!By The Screening Room
Everything Everywhere All At Once is a zany and profound sci-fi action comedy set in multiple dimensions. It stars Michelle Yeoh as a businesswoman whose world is turned upside down the day her family attempts to file their taxes. The film earned 11 Oscar nominations, including best picture, director, and a lead actress for nomination Yeoh. So we t…
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Flick City 85: Deon Taylor, Andrew Bachelor, Fear, Kompromat, Joanna Kulig, Jerome Salle
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Here are my interviews with Fear director/co-writer Deon Taylor (Black and Blue) and actor Andrew Bachelor. I also interview Kompromat filmmaker Jerome Salle and actress Joanna Kulig (Cold War). (0:00) - Intro (7:51) - Deon Taylor and Andrew Bachelor interview (14:09) - Jerome Salle and Joanna Kulig interview We receive a commission if you purchase…
Nominations for this year's Oscars dropped today, and it's a big year for Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Banshees Of Inisherin, and All Quiet On The Western Front. We run down the nominees in the major categories, plus talk about some surprises and snubs. Subscribe to Pop Culture Happy Hour Plus at plus.npr.org/happyhour…
Cheers is one of the most celebrated TV sitcoms of all time. Set in a Boston bar, the show won major awards and turned stars like Ted Danson, Shelley Long, and Rhea Perlman into household names. Cheers ended its run 30 years ago this spring, so we thought this would be a good time to revisit the series and answer your questions.…
The adult animated series Velma chronicles the origin story of the bespectacled brains of the original Scooby Gang. We meet Velma, Fred, Daphne and Shaggy in high school, as Velma struggles with mean girls, a neglectful father, a missing mother, patriarchal beauty standards, same-sex attraction and a serial killer. Velma is voiced by Mindy Kaling, …
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FilmWeek Marquee: ‘When You Finish Saving The World,’ ‘The Super 8 Years’ and ‘Chess Story’
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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Lael Loewenstein, Andy Klein and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming and on demand platforms — in three minutes or less!By KPCC 89.3
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FilmWeek: ‘When You Finish Saving The World,’ ‘Missing,’ ‘Beautiful Beings’ And More
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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Lael Loewenstein, Andy Klein and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms. FilmWeek: ‘When You Finish Saving The World,’ ‘Missing,’ ‘Beautiful Beings’ And More (0:15) “When You Finish Saving The World,” In Select Theaters “Missing,” Wide Release “Beau…
The new movie Missing is about our connected world. The social media, the surveillance cameras, the news footage, the video chats — the many, many things we can see from our screens. In this sequel to the 2018 thriller Searching, Storm Reid plays a young woman whose mother leaves on a trip with her boyfriend and seems to just vanish. Desperate to s…
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Flick City 84: Kids Vs. Aliens, Jason Eisener, Calem Macdonald, Jack Kilmer, Detective Knight: Independence
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For this installment of Flick City, Eric Holmes interviews Kids vs. Aliens director Jason Eisener (7:27) and actor Calem Macdonald (20:01). Greg Srisavasdi talks to Jack Kilmer, who stars with Bruce Willis in Detective Knight: Independence (32:17). Kids vs. Aliens and Detective Knight: Independence hit theaters, Digital and On Demand January 20, 20…
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Missing, The Son, Alice Darling, Legions, Holy Spider, Take Back the Night, Devil to Pay, more...
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Are you into "screenlife?" Let's discuss that and more this week....By The Screening Room
In Peacock's new reality competition series The Traitors, contestants and reality TV veterans undergo missions at a Scottish castle to earn cash for the money pot. But there are three "traitors" among them, secretly working to "murder" the other players before these "faithfuls" find them out. The series is hosted by a slyly sinister Alan Cumming. S…
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Ep. 173: The Whale, Babylon, Alice Darling, New Gods: Yang Jian, Back to the Wharf
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Anderson Cowan is back with reviews of Babylon and The Whale. Other movies covered includle Alice, Darling, New Gods: Yang Jian, Kids vs. Aliens, and Back to the Wharf. Deandra Miranda, the intro voice of CinemAddicts, joins Greg Srisavasdi after Ep. 173 to discuss The Whale as well. We also do a spoiler discussion. Follow Deandra on IG: https://ww…
There are pop culture figures we love, and those we could maybe do without. And then there are the ones we're rooting for: The underdogs, the comeback kids, the stars-on-the-rise, and everything in between. Today we're talking about the pop culture people we're pulling for.By NPR
The moving new drama Saint Omer tells the story of a young mother (Guslagie Malanda) brought to trial for the killing of her infant daughter. Meanwhile, another woman (Kayije Kagame) who has come to observe and write about the trial wrestles with her own feelings about impending motherhood. Directed by Alice Diop, the French film is shortlisted for…
The Pop Culture Happy Hour team is off today, so we're bringing you an episode from our pals at Code Switch all about Dungeons & Dragons. It's one of the most popular tabletop roleplaying games of all time. But it has also helped cement some ideas about how we create and define race in fantasy — and in the tangible world. Host Gene Demby and produc…
Alice Diop, director of "Saint Omer," discusses why the film sits at an intersection between fiction and documentary, how sound and editing each influence the way the viewer understands what happens and connects the film's two protagonists, and the powerful, political impact of centering black women in the camera frame. Note: a French version of th…
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FilmWeek Marquee: ‘No Bears,’ ‘Saint Omer’ and ‘Plane’
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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson and Peter Rainer review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming and on demand platforms — in three minutes or less!By KPCC 89.3
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FilmWeek: ‘No Bears,’ ‘Saint Omer,’ ‘Plane,’ ‘Skinamarink’ And More
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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson and Peter Rainer review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms. FilmWeek: ‘No Bears,’ ‘Saint Omer,’ ‘Plane,’ ‘Skinamarink’ And More (0:15) “No Bears,” Laemmle Royal [West LA] “Saint Omer,” Wide Release “Jethica,” Lumiere Cinema Music Hall [Beverly Hills] “Pl…
What do you need to know about the movie Plane? Well, there's a plane. Specifically, there's a plane that goes down when it's struck by lightning and ends up on the worst possible island. It's then up to a captain, played by Gerard Butler, and his passengers to survive.By NPR
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Flick City 83: Interviews with Saint Omer's Guslagie Malanda and The Old Way's Ryan Kiera Armstrong
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Saint Omer's Guslagie Malanda (4:12) and The Old Way's Ryan Kiera Armstrong (19:07) are interviewed on this installment of Flick City. France's official submission to the 95th Oscars, Saint Omer features Malanda as a woman on trial who is accused of killing her baby. It hits theaters January 13. Armstrong plays the daughter of a former gunslinger (…
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Skinamarink, House Party, EO, Saint Omer, I Didn't See You There, 7 Faces of Jane, more
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Lete's argue about Skinamarink!By The Screening Room
If you're looking for a charming romantic comedy, consider checking out the Netflix series Smiley. Set in Barcelona, it follows Alex and Bruno, two very different men who meet and experience an overwhelming attraction that they then, as they must, struggle with enormously. Can these two ever find happiness?…
