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The Best DVDs of 2025
These are the works of serious auteurs whose films will stick in your brain like haunting melodies or shards of glass.
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These are the works of serious auteurs whose films will stick in your brain like haunting melodies or shards of glass.
READ: tinyurl.com/BestDVDs25
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The Best DVDs of 2025 are the works of serious auteurs whose films will stick in your brain like haunting melodies or shards of glass.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Best DVDs of 2025
These are the works of serious auteurs whose films will stick in your brain like haunting melodies or shards of glass.
READ: tinyurl.com/BestDVDs25
These are the works of serious auteurs whose films will stick in your brain like haunting melodies or shards of glass.
READ: tinyurl.com/BestDVDs25
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This 4K release of the Val Kilmer sci-fi flick 'Red Planet' is gorgeous.
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READ: tinyurl.com/RedHoffman
December 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This 4K release of the Val Kilmer sci-fi flick 'Red Planet' is gorgeous.
READ: tinyurl.com/RedHoffman
READ: tinyurl.com/RedHoffman
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The three Robert Hossein films in ‘Wicked Games’ exhibit gender-based power struggles and existentialist tendencies with a touch of absurdism.
They could have easily been written by Harold Pinter.
They could have easily been written by Harold Pinter.
Ignored French Filmmaker Robert Hossein Finally Gets His Flowers
Radiance collects three early movies by forgotten filmmaker Robert Hossein, whose unique psychological dramas have been overshadowed by the French New Wave.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The three Robert Hossein films in ‘Wicked Games’ exhibit gender-based power struggles and existentialist tendencies with a touch of absurdism.
They could have easily been written by Harold Pinter.
They could have easily been written by Harold Pinter.
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Tom Waits' Nighthawks at the Diner has received a 50th anniversary reissue. It remains a jazzy, captivating portrait of a young Waits deep in character. – @onenotthenumber
'Nighthawks at the Diner' 50th Anniversary Re-Issue' is a perfect [10/10] out now via @antirecords.bsky.social.
'Nighthawks at the Diner' 50th Anniversary Re-Issue' is a perfect [10/10] out now via @antirecords.bsky.social.
Tom Waits' Perfect Performance 50 Years Later » PopMatters
Nighthawks at the Diner has received a 50th anniversary reissue. It remains a jazzy, captivating portrait of a young Tom Waits deep in character.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Tom Waits' Nighthawks at the Diner has received a 50th anniversary reissue. It remains a jazzy, captivating portrait of a young Waits deep in character. – @onenotthenumber
'Nighthawks at the Diner' 50th Anniversary Re-Issue' is a perfect [10/10] out now via @antirecords.bsky.social.
'Nighthawks at the Diner' 50th Anniversary Re-Issue' is a perfect [10/10] out now via @antirecords.bsky.social.
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In Harry Kümel's newly restored, surreal gothic horror ‘Malpertuis’, Orson Welles gives a memorably cantankerous performance as a dying man bequeathing his estate to those he utterly loathes.
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Gothic Nightmare 'Malpertuis' Seems Tailored for Orson Welles » PopMatters
In the newly-restored surreal gothic horror film Malpertuis, Orson Welles gives a memorably cantankerous performance as a dying man bequeathing his estate to people he loathes.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In Harry Kümel's newly restored, surreal gothic horror ‘Malpertuis’, Orson Welles gives a memorably cantankerous performance as a dying man bequeathing his estate to those he utterly loathes.
READ: tinyurl.com/Malpertuis
READ: tinyurl.com/Malpertuis
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If there’s an undercurrent throughout the Japanese horror in 'Daiei Gothic Vol. 2', it’s how women's suffering is so embedded in Japanese folklore.
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Three Japanese Horror Classics Haunted by Women's Agony » PopMatters
If there’s an undercurrent throughout the Japanese horror in Daiei Gothic Vol. 2, it’s how women's suffering is so embedded in Japanese folklore.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If there’s an undercurrent throughout the Japanese horror in 'Daiei Gothic Vol. 2', it’s how women's suffering is so embedded in Japanese folklore.
READ: tinyurl.com/HorrorDaiei
READ: tinyurl.com/HorrorDaiei
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Indie pop legends Saint Etienne discuss their career and philosophy amidst the release of their final album, ‘International’. They move your body as much as your mind.
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INTERVIEW: tinyurl.com/StEtienneInt
Join Our Club: Saint Etienne Discuss Their Retirement
Saint Etienne are throwing a retirement party with their final album, and you are cordially invited. They speak to PopMatters about their career and philosophy.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Indie pop legends Saint Etienne discuss their career and philosophy amidst the release of their final album, ‘International’. They move your body as much as your mind.
INTERVIEW: tinyurl.com/StEtienneInt
INTERVIEW: tinyurl.com/StEtienneInt
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‘The Librarians’ is a vital David and Goliath documentary about the fight against book banning, a harbinger of fascism, in America.
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Check Out 'The Librarians' Before It's Banned » PopMatters
The Librarians is a vital David and Goliath documentary of the fight against book banning, a harbinger of fascism, in America.
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October 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
‘The Librarians’ is a vital David and Goliath documentary about the fight against book banning, a harbinger of fascism, in America.
READ: tinyurl.com/TheLbrns
READ: tinyurl.com/TheLbrns
Check out 'Checkpoint Zoo,' first opening at Quad Cinema on Aug. 15 before expanding, from @abramorama.com It's a beautiful study of the animal-human bond. www.popmatters.com/checkpoint-z... #CheckpointZoo #PopMatters
'Checkpoint Zoo' Saves the Animals Two by Two » PopMatters
Documentary director Joshua Zeman's time in true crime equipped him with an ability to craft dread and suspense, which goes a long way in Checkpoint Zoo.
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August 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Check out 'Checkpoint Zoo,' first opening at Quad Cinema on Aug. 15 before expanding, from @abramorama.com It's a beautiful study of the animal-human bond. www.popmatters.com/checkpoint-z... #CheckpointZoo #PopMatters
How has Jerrod Carmichael not played Stokely Carmichael yet? It's the most obvious biopic casting. Someone call Spike Lee.
May 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
How has Jerrod Carmichael not played Stokely Carmichael yet? It's the most obvious biopic casting. Someone call Spike Lee.
#MovieOfTheDay is the 4K release of 'Silent Running' by @arrowvideo.bsky.social While the folk music is incongruously cringe at first, it adds to a haunting, pensive sci-fi eco drama with Young Bruce Dern at his best. Kim Newman is great as usual in a commentary track with Barry Forshaw.
May 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
#MovieOfTheDay is the 4K release of 'Silent Running' by @arrowvideo.bsky.social While the folk music is incongruously cringe at first, it adds to a haunting, pensive sci-fi eco drama with Young Bruce Dern at his best. Kim Newman is great as usual in a commentary track with Barry Forshaw.
#MovieOfTheDay 'Upstream Color' is one of those works of art that changes after you realize the behavior of the man who made it. The background of the two leads makes it all the more intense. It's still a spiritual sci-fi masterpiece, and Amy Seimetz deserves all the world's flowers. #UpstreamColor
May 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
#MovieOfTheDay 'Upstream Color' is one of those works of art that changes after you realize the behavior of the man who made it. The background of the two leads makes it all the more intense. It's still a spiritual sci-fi masterpiece, and Amy Seimetz deserves all the world's flowers. #UpstreamColor
#MovieOfTheDay 'Drop Zone' is just a fun bomb, a surprisingly silly "B-movie with A-movie gloss," as the always astute Bilge Ebiri writes in one of many great essays included in the release from @cine-matographe.bsky.social. #DropZone is a meticulously detailed & cool study of a daredevil subculture
May 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
#MovieOfTheDay 'Drop Zone' is just a fun bomb, a surprisingly silly "B-movie with A-movie gloss," as the always astute Bilge Ebiri writes in one of many great essays included in the release from @cine-matographe.bsky.social. #DropZone is a meticulously detailed & cool study of a daredevil subculture
#MovieOfTheDay 'Nothing Bad Can Happen' (German: 'Tore tanzt') is one of the most unsettling films ever made. It's one of the purest Christian films I've seen despite being unceasingly f'ed up, practically baptizing the audience in misanthropy by the end.
May 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
#MovieOfTheDay 'Nothing Bad Can Happen' (German: 'Tore tanzt') is one of the most unsettling films ever made. It's one of the purest Christian films I've seen despite being unceasingly f'ed up, practically baptizing the audience in misanthropy by the end.
#MovieOfTheDay 'Versus' is sublime insanity, a zombie-samurai-yakuza film with some of the most entertaining action scenes in history. A cocktail of Seijun Suzuki, 'The Evil Dead,' and Branagh's underrated 'Dead Again,' Ryuhei Kitamura's film is a literal blast. #Versus movieweb.com/versus-2000-...
How Has Nobody Seen This Zombie Samurai Classic?
'Evil Dead' but with samurai swords and guns. What more would a cult film fan want?
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May 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
#MovieOfTheDay 'Versus' is sublime insanity, a zombie-samurai-yakuza film with some of the most entertaining action scenes in history. A cocktail of Seijun Suzuki, 'The Evil Dead,' and Branagh's underrated 'Dead Again,' Ryuhei Kitamura's film is a literal blast. #Versus movieweb.com/versus-2000-...
'A Desert' is snuff as art film, a transgressive meta-horror about the inherent violence of images, and why we're drawn to them. It's in a small group of great audience-implicating films ('Man Bites Dog,' 'Salò,' 'Caché'). #ADesert is now in theaters. movieweb.com/a-desert-202...
'A Desert' Is a Truly Transgressive Horror Film That Pushes the Genre's Limits
It'll get under your skin and mess up your mind.
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May 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
'A Desert' is snuff as art film, a transgressive meta-horror about the inherent violence of images, and why we're drawn to them. It's in a small group of great audience-implicating films ('Man Bites Dog,' 'Salò,' 'Caché'). #ADesert is now in theaters. movieweb.com/a-desert-202...
@mrjamesob.bsky.social The thing that the UK & Europe in general may not understand is that Americans now view them as a failed liberal experiment. They think the EU is woke, overrun with immigrants, socialist, etc. They like the whiteness and conservative anti-woke of Russia. It's getting dark
March 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social The thing that the UK & Europe in general may not understand is that Americans now view them as a failed liberal experiment. They think the EU is woke, overrun with immigrants, socialist, etc. They like the whiteness and conservative anti-woke of Russia. It's getting dark
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First look images for #PokerFace Season 2, coming soon to Peacock!
February 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
First look images for #PokerFace Season 2, coming soon to Peacock!
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First look images for #PokerFace Season 2, coming soon to Peacock!
February 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
First look images for #PokerFace Season 2, coming soon to Peacock!
There is no more idiot's corner, James. The corner has become the room, and you're being pushed into a new corner, a much scarier one full of holes. This is the nightmare we've woken up into. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There is no more idiot's corner, James. The corner has become the room, and you're being pushed into a new corner, a much scarier one full of holes. This is the nightmare we've woken up into. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
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#WesAnderson's next film is coming very, very soon...👀 Details here 👉 bit.ly/419gMmc
Wes Anderson's Star-Studded Film Finally Has a Release Date, and It's Sooner Than We Thought
Wes Anderson's next film is coming very, very soon...👀
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February 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
#WesAnderson's next film is coming very, very soon...👀 Details here 👉 bit.ly/419gMmc
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Josh Duhamel leads the new #Netflix Western series about feuding ranches. Sound familiar? Details here 👉 bit.ly/3CLAsmS
Netflix Is Stealing 'Yellowstone' Fans with Their New Western Series
Josh Duhamel leads the new Netflix Western series about feuding ranches. Sound familiar?
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February 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Josh Duhamel leads the new #Netflix Western series about feuding ranches. Sound familiar? Details here 👉 bit.ly/3CLAsmS
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A predictable structure stays interesting thanks to surprising returns, great performances, and thrilling tension. Full review 👉 bit.ly/4hxksnw
#TheWhiteLotus
#TheWhiteLotus
'The White Lotus' Season 3 Review: Thailand Tests New Guests
A predictable structure stays interesting thanks to surprising returns, great performances, and thrilling tension.
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February 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A predictable structure stays interesting thanks to surprising returns, great performances, and thrilling tension. Full review 👉 bit.ly/4hxksnw
#TheWhiteLotus
#TheWhiteLotus
So I guess in Trumpland, #FreePalestine means that Palestinian territory is free to claim and build resorts on. In 50 years, it will be just like those elite, White Lotus-ass Hawaiian hotels built on indigenous land, staffed by poor people who've been kicked out of their homes.
February 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
So I guess in Trumpland, #FreePalestine means that Palestinian territory is free to claim and build resorts on. In 50 years, it will be just like those elite, White Lotus-ass Hawaiian hotels built on indigenous land, staffed by poor people who've been kicked out of their homes.
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First poster for #ASimpleFavor sequel, now titled #AnotherSimpleFavor, starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick.
The movie is set to premiere at 2025 SXSW film and TV festival, before being released on Prime Video on May 1.
The movie is set to premiere at 2025 SXSW film and TV festival, before being released on Prime Video on May 1.
February 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
First poster for #ASimpleFavor sequel, now titled #AnotherSimpleFavor, starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick.
The movie is set to premiere at 2025 SXSW film and TV festival, before being released on Prime Video on May 1.
The movie is set to premiere at 2025 SXSW film and TV festival, before being released on Prime Video on May 1.