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'Shook' Tells a Different Sort of Scarborough Story

Directed by Amar Wala

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

Movies set in Scarborough tend to show the beauty of the area through its grit and the trauma that follows. While there's certainly a need...

'The Life of Chuck' Is a Self-Serious Bore

Directed by Mike Flanagan

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with saccharine sentimentality and ponderous monologues about the meaning of life. The...

Anderson .Paak's Star Power Makes 'K-Pops' Pop

Directed by Anderson .Paak

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

Anderson .Paak is hardly the first musician to sidestep from music to movies, but his filmography to date is extremely thin, mostly...

'Paying for It' Is a Wonderful Bit of Oversharing

Directed by Sook-Yin Lee

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

The backstory alone is unlike anything else: filmmaker/musician/artist Sook-Yin Lee and cartoonist Chester Brown were in a romantic...

'Presence' Is an Unexpected Fake-Out

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2024

More often than not, Steven Soderbergh's career is spoken of as this kind of Soderbergh movie or that kind of Soderbergh movie. His...

'The Last Showgirl' Ushers In the Pamassaince

Directed by Gia Coppola

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2024

The Pamaissance is here. After 2022's 'Pam & Tommy' reappraised Pamela Anderson as a sympathetic hero, the 2023 doc 'Pamela, a love story'...

Midwife Follows a Long, Hard Road on 'No Depression in Heaven'

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2024

Marvin Heemeyer spent 18 months gathering steel for his Komatsu bulldozer. He was going to layer large metal sheets over the cab and engine...

'Rose Main Reading Room' Is Peel Dream Magazine's Very Own 50 States Project

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PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2024

I am but a simple millennial indie fan: when I hear trilling woodwinds, I think of Sufjan Stevens. There are 50 States Project vibes all...