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Jul 29, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Sarah Gorr |Chris Ludovici
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>The host of a podcast I regularly listen to consistently refers to a “toxic impulse.” I’m not sure I agree, but I found myself thinking about that turn of phrase often while screening all ten episodes of Batman: Caped Crusader.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Lisa Laman |Sarah Gorr |Chris Ludovici
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>While the general world of theatrical comedies remains elusive at multiplexes everywhere, one strain of the genre keeps on chugging in theaters. The Last Vegas/Going in Style/Book Club-style comedy is still going strong. Titles focusing on a wacky trio or quartet of famous actors over 60 persist at Cinemarks everywhere. Even Book Club 2: The Next Chapter’s box office failure last year couldn’t stop this subgenre.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Sarah Gorr |Chris Ludovici
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>To say creator Kathleen Jordan’s adaptation of The Decameron is loose is to enjoy the gift of significant understatement. The source material, an Italian collection of 100 tales “told” to one another by ten characters, was a kind of Canterbury Tales for the plague set. Or, more accurately, Tales was a Decameron for the Brits. The Italian work, after all, has about 50 years on Chaucer’s book.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Sarah Gorr |Chris Ludovici
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>To say creator Kathleen Jordan’s adaptation of The Decameron is loose is to enjoy the gift of significant understatement. The source material, an Italian collection of 100 tales “told” to one another by ten characters, was a kind of Canterbury Tales for the plague set. Or, more accurately, Tales was a Decameron for the Brits. The Italian work, after all, has about 50 years on Chaucer’s book.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Sarah Gorr |Chris Ludovici
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>For a show set in the mid-1960s, Lady in the Lake explores a basketful of issues relevant to today. From nearly 60 years in our past, it echoes modern “concerns” of all stripes. For example, characters range from dubious to outright hostile to the idea of Maddie (Natalie Portman) working as a journalist or Ferdie Platt (Y’lan Noel) becoming the first black detective in Baltimore.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Lisa Laman |Sarah Gorr |Chris Ludovici
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>Eons ago, a wise philosopher named Scott Stapp turned his head to the heavens and screamed, “Can you take me higher?/to a place where blind men see/Can you take me higher?/to a place with golden streets?”. Whether or not he ever got to those grand heights is unknown. However, daredevil Russian climbers Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus took a different, more active route to reaching those beckoning skies.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Megan Hillery Sunday |Sarah Gorr |Chris Ludovici
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>There’s probably something meaningful to say about the current state of politics and the seeming revival of the swords and sandals genre; unfortunately, Peacock’s new series Those About to Die engenders very little desire to engage with its material on any deeper level.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Sarah Gorr |Chris Ludovici
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>As metaphors for one’s tweens and early teens, a superpower that changes your body, often without your control or knowledge, and leaves you questioning who you truly are at any given moment isn’t exactly subtle. But when it comes to chronicling the travails of middle school, perhaps subtlety isn’t the best way to approach the problem anyway.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Justin Harrison |Sarah Gorr |Chris Ludovici
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>Amrit Rathod (Lakshya) is a commando. He is a peerless soldier among peers. He’s as ruthless as he is skilled, and when he fights, he wins. It might be a slugfest, and he cannot walk off a hit like it’s nothing, but if someone fights him, he’s the one who walks away from the fight. He’s also a good friend to his fellow commando Viresh (Abhishek Chauhan) and a loving partner to his girlfriend Tulika Singh (Tanya Maniktala.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Sarah Gorr |Chris Ludovici |Tim Stevens
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>Mother, Couch doesn’t believe in a gentle leadup or easing viewers into its bizarre premise. Instead, it knocks you out of a plane with a hammer, letting you crash land in a world that only masquerades as the one we’re familiar with. On a grand scale, it’s a movie about familial trauma, loneliness, and the desperation that comes with trying to make your family be what you wish it were.
