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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Don’t…

It’s likely that director Sam Raimi sees some of himself in “Oz,” the circus-magician-turned-prophesized-savior in…

“It’s all about money,” The Girl’s protagonist Abbie Cornish screams to anyone who will listen. She has a point. As…

Last weekend, two new movies opened in arthouses to mixed-to-positive notices. A Place At The Table, a documentary…

Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won a deserving Palme D’Or in 2007 for 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days, a riveting…

For nearly 40 years, there has never been any question about whether Stephen King’s prolific horror fictions should…

Pick Of The Week: New

In what we can only assume is a rejection of digital projection as a replacement for celluloid—or a repudiation of…

1. Friday Night Lights (2006-2011) 
Much like the Dillon Panthers, the high-school team at the center of a…

Lost in all the jokes about the very existence of a sequel to 2010’s The Last Exorcism—“The Lastest Exorcism?”…

March has arrived, and with it, the migration of the nation’s college students to warm coastal destinations for the…

To listen to these and other podcasts, visit Podmass Central, our podcast hub.

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: The Last…

With the 1994 founding of Gramercy Tavern, a New American restaurant in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, Tom Colicchio…

In March 1968, the Soviet nuclear submarine K-129 sank under mysterious circumstances in the North Pacific Ocean,…

The multi-faceted problem of hunger in America, where around 50 million people are categorized as “food insecure”—a…

“If you understand me, just grunt.” —Jean-Claude Van Damme, Hard Target

Pick Of The Week: New

On the weekend when the industry held its biggest celebration of itself—capping a months-long season of smaller…