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1 week ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
When Jesus Revolutionbecame a surprise box-office hit in 2023, Franklin film studio Kingdom Story Company kicked off a run of bigscreen faith-based projects that challenged the reputation of a genre that had become a punchline even to the most devout.
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1 week ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Novocaine (Paramount+) Jack Quaid stars as a mild-mannered bank branch assistant manager who goes HAM on the gang that took his crush hostage after a botched robbery. Thing is, he has a disability that prevents him from feeling pain. A hilarious, well-written jolt of action comedy about getting past the beta life.
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2 weeks ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
While the MAGA faithful and the TDS afflicted spent the last four months glued to screens, Allegra Dru Milisitz was holed up in an upstate New York farmhouse with three strangers making friendship bracelets. But the model, magazine publisher, and breakout star of the Food Network’s 2023 series Worst Cooks in America isn’t a Luddite or emulator of the Amish way of life. She was just making a second run at the reality TV life on Greg Gutfeld’s new Fox Nation game show, What Did I Miss?
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2 weeks ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
The last time David Mamet directed a movie, Barack Obama was still wrapping up the primary season for his first stint in the White House. Mergers, known blockbuster IP, and the shift to streaming have made Mamet–inarguably the most influential playwright of the late 20th Century–a man out of time in Hollywood and Broadway over the intervening decade and a half.
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2 weeks ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
The Brutalist(HBO Max) Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour epic about Hungarian architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) undertaking the Sisyphean task of building a rural Pennsylvania community center was hands down the best film of 2024. As we said upon its release, its go-to reading as a meditation on the immigrant experience at the dawn of late capitalism says more about critical laziness than the movie itself.
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3 weeks ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Heart Eyes (Netflix) When a serial killer who targets couples on Valentine’s Day moves to Seattle, a couple of ad agency all-stars with striking chemistry must try to survive the night while breaking away from their Gen Z social awkwardness. It’s an utterly ingenious mashup of romcom-slasher flick that deserved Scream-level grosses upon its release in February.
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1 month ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Despite its cultural ascendancy, the American Right has long lacked its own Chistopher Hitchens–an elder polymath whose contrarian philosophical approach broaches questions that even the most daring of pundits wouldn’t touch. However, since his breakout book, The Benedict Option, in 2018, Rod Dreher appears primed to take up that mantle.
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1 month ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
The most exhausting aspect of Art in the Age of Trump is the tendency to boil down complex works to vapid lefty platitudes. But, for the past two weeks, Ryan Coogler’s Southern Gothic period vampire epic, Sinners, has managed to escape the stigma of Good Liberal Groupthink, becoming a multi-demo sensation and allowing the movies to organically dominate the pop-culture conversation in ways unseen since peak Marvel.
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1 month ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Transformers One (Prime) While Hasbro’s alien robots don’t have the best cinematic legacy, this animated origin from last year manages some impressive character development and a treatise on deplorable populism that puts it on par with anything in the Pixar and Illumination roster. Andor (Disney+) If a terrible twenty-year-old Star Wars prequel can gross $25 million in one weekend upon its rerelease, then the ultimate Hollywood franchise still has some mojo.
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1 month ago | 
pamphleteer.co | Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Back in early March, we thought this Oscar also-ran would be going the way of many of its prestige predecessors after Anora and The Brutalist dominated Hollywood’s biggest night. But in the wake of Pope Francis’s shuffle off the mortal coil as images of JD Vance danced in his head, it’s finally become the movie of the moment.
