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9 Things I Learned Rewatching 'Top Chef' Season 1
Oh, and we finally finished our rewatch podcast.
Vince Mancini
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It's Healthcare, Stupid
A massive backlash to the private insurance industry is under way. Why do MMA fighters have better talking points than our politicians?
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Ranking 2025's Best Picture Nominees
It is my sworn duty to prepare you for the Oscars.
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'Pistachio Wars' and the Terraforming of California, with Yasha Levine
Publicly subsidized privately profitable, that old story.
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'Captain America: Brave New World' Continues the MCU's March to Irrelevancy
Oops all understudies, and the MCU's Obama-era hangover.
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Pod Yourself A Gun Was a Jeopardy Clue
Plus, the best ads from the Super Bowl, and the best quotes from the Emilia Perez actress.
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The Results of the Marshawn Lynch Movie Experiment Are In!
Here's to hoping 'Love Hurts' normalizes Marshawn as an actor and kills most of the other things it does.
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The Best Movies of 2024
Better late than never, right?
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You Should Absolutely See 'Nickel Boys' Before It Leaves Theaters
Usually I can tell whether I'm going to enjoy a movie in the first ten minutes. 'Nickel Boys' took much longer than that but wrecked me in the end.
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Is This 'Soy Banter?' Whatever It Is, It Sucks.
The smug style of dialogue that has infected everything. (Plus, This Week In Movie Posters and the Hyper Specific Thirst Trap of the Week)
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Mark Wahlberg Wants to Rape and/or Kill You
Mel Gibson's latest, 'Flight Risk,' starring Marky Mark, is dumb, weird, and fun.
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'The Brutalist' is a Majestic, Confounding Epic
"It feels like they spent more time on the intermission graphic than on wrapping up a three-and-a-half-hour movie."