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Exit 8 is a Japanese movie adaption of the video game The Exit 8 . A man, played by Kazunari Ninomiya and credited as The Lost Man, finds himself trapped in an endlessly looping subway tunnel, trying to find exit 8. He soon learns the rules: if there is an anomaly in the current loop, he must turn back and go the other way. If there isn't an anomaly, he must keep going the way he is going. If he goes the correct way, the next exit goes up in number one by one until he reache

There's a version of Pizza Movie that probably shouldn't work. Honestly, most versions of it shouldn't. And yet, somehow, this one does. Directed by Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, Pizza Movie follows two college roommates, Jack (Gaten Matarazzo) and Montgomery (Sean Giambrone), who make what feels like a very manageable decision. Take an experimental drug. Order a pizza. Stay in. Do nothing. That plan does not hold. What should be a lazy night quickly fractures into somet

The new rom-com You, Me & Tuscany from director Kat Coiro kicks off with Anna (Halle Bailey), a young woman struggling financially as she meets Matteo (Lorenzo de Moor), a traveling real estate agent as he's visiting New York where she currently lives. When Matteo finds out Anna was once planning to visit Tuscany, the city he happens to be from, he encourages her to go there and tells her about the villa he left behind. When Anna arrives in Tuscany and realizes she has nowher

Reef Hawk (Keanu Reeves) has been riding the high of being in Hollywood's good graces since the age of six. Forty years later and he's still on top of the world. He's won two Oscars and has starred in three of the biggest franchises in film history. But what is most important for Reef is that his fans still love him. Throughout his entire career, he's always been very careful in constructing his public image. Sure, he's had his share of struggles, but he's managed to keep it

Netflix has made a habit of commissioning films that exist somewhere between theatrical ambition and streaming comfort food. Thrash , directed by Tommy Wirkola, lands squarely in that territory — a shark-disaster hybrid with genuine technical muscle and a script that keeps tripping over itself. The premise is straightforward enough: a Category 5 hurricane devastates a fictional coastal town called Annieville, and the storm surge carries in something worse than floodwater. Hun

There are filmmakers you discover and filmmakers who discover you, who find you at exactly the moment you needed to be found and rearrange something permanent in the way you see. Bong Joon-ho is the second kind. Most of us in this country came to him through  Parasite , that extraordinary night when the Oscars remembered, briefly, that the rest of the world makes movies too. But to watch  Memories of Murder  again, in this rerelease, is to understand that he arrived fully for

Lately, I've been on a binge to watch/rewatch the more recent Best Picture-nominated films that went home with nothing on Oscar night. I've even made some articles on what may have happened to them over on my Substack account . Since I had a copy of War Horse hiding away in my endless DVD collection, I figured it was time to open this bad boy out and see what I thought of it. Unfortunately, War Horse falls right into the same problems I've been having with Steven Spielberg

Despite its good reviews and word of mouth, I had missed Bart Layton's Crime 101 when it was in theaters earlier this year. It's not alone; it was simultaneously at the cinema with Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die , and I never made it out those few weeks to see that, either. My loss, I suppose, but at least it did not take long for the former flick to hit Hulu for streaming purposes. (As of this writing, the latter picture is only available as a rental, and it's still $20 just

Imagine you are twenty-seven, a global rockstar, producing hit after hit, touring all over the globe, fans love you, and then your world-famous band breaks up. What do you do? This is where Paul McCartney found himself when the Beatles began to fall apart in 1969, as John Lennon left the band. With all that fame and fortune, most would guess McCartney would spend his days after the Beatles’ breakup in some swanky hotel, living the rockstar life. Quite on the contrary, in fact