Here are best movies streaming right now, including a new Martin Scorsese masterpiece, a Shane Black comedy, a suburban Western, a monster comedy and more.
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Here are best movies streaming right now, including a great Netflix original, a documentary about time travel, and an underrated Wachowski flick.
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I like the fact that the band is still called Sonic Youth, even though they're all in their 50s. Similarly, there's the term New Hollywood, which represents a very specific time in which the studio bosses gave free reign to independent-minded, radical filmmakers looking to push the artistic boundaries of film. It is a cinema…
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The internet can be a miracle. Years ago, we might have read about the very early work of certain filmmakers -- commercials, short films, and so-called 'industrials,' aka informative films made for companies or schools -- but they were often very difficult to find. We knew about these journeyman periods from various directors, but couldn't…
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The Academy Awards are this Sunday and if you are anything like me you have a. . .mild interest in watching. Competition in the arts is, lets face it, a little silly. The Descendants and Tree of Life are both about troubled families, and are both brilliant, but how on earth do you compare the…
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"Awesome." Here at Slashfilm, if a holiday doesn't go well with movies we just ignore it. Sometimes we'll remain totally oblivious to a holiday. For others, we won't even get out of bed, or we'll just sip on a beer and pretend it's Slashfilm Day, and it always is. You can't make a movie party…
Read MoreThe hypnotic intro to M*A*S*H, alongside China Beach's, was forever instilled in my head as a kid, even though I habitually fell asleep beside my dad two minutes into the actual show. And of course, Robert Altman's 1970 film is one of his classics. Twenty six years later, a retired chemical engineer named Andreas Kyriacou…
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Clint Eastwood believes that Martin Scorsese will finally claim the Academy Award he so rightfuly deserves, and beat him to the Best Director prize. Two years ago Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby beat Scorsese's The Aviator. "He [Scorsese] probably has a good chance, there is a lot of sympathy for him, but I have no control…
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