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'Twister$' is the Platonic Ideal of a Summer Blockbuster
TWINS!!! WE GOT TWINS!!!!!
Vince Mancini
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I Visited Your Hometown
How Grand Were My Tetons? Or, Adventures in the Mountain West in the twilight of the American experience.
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A Culture Clash Comedy in Search of a Culture
In 'Beverly Hills Cop Axel F,' being a Detroit cop transported to Beverly Hills doesn't produce the comedic contrasts it once did.
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A Modest Proposal
July 5th should be a national holiday.
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Zen and the Art of Vegetable Chopping
Some notes on pico de gallo, gardening, and trying to make chicken like El Pollo Loco.
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'Kinds of Kindness': Yorgos is Funny Even When He's Kind of Tedious
Yorgos Lanthimos dicks around with some of his favorite actors, which isn't the worst thing in the world.
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Top Chef Frotcast Post-Show: Amar Santana on S1E1
The season 13 finalist (and season 20 fan fave) opens up about the casting process, the psych eval, the editing, and everything that's changed since Top Chef season one.
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The Rock's $250 Million Piss Bottle Movie
Remember that movie The Rock's assistant supposedly came up with? It has a poster and a trailer now.
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Everyone is Mad at Top Chef's Editors
No one liked how that last episode was edited. Was it because of wokeness??! It was, wasn't it! Gosh dang it!
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'The Bikeriders' is Another Gorgeous Jeff Nichols Joint That Feels Somehow Incomplete
No one else makes imperfect films so watchable.
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Andrew McCarthy is Still Mad About Being Called a 'Brat' in 1985
'Brats,' Hulu's Brat Pack movie, looks like a cheap nostalgia exercise. It's actually something more interesting, an unintentionally revealing self-portrait.
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Top Chef Power Rankings, Week 14: The Whole Aguachile
That's a mofong-no from me, dog.