Groovy Movies
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Episodes: 107
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Weekly deep dives into your favourite films with Lily Austin and James Brailsford.
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The cinematic ascent of A24 and its latest hit, The Drama
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May 12, 2026 |
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Clever Girls and Space Men ft. Hannah McGregor
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Should we scrap award ceremonies?
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Wuthering Heights: can Jacob Elordi grow a beard?
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Star Wars 101
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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A Very Kubrick Christmas
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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The best and worst of 2025
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Is this the death of cinema?
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Knives Out returns
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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RE-RELEASE: What turns a bad movie into a cult classic?
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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RE-RELEASE: Heat (1995) dir. by Michael Mann
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Jennifer Lawrence in Die My Love: The modern melodrama? Ft. The Ministry of Film
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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What is it about heist movies? Plus: the perpetual seductiveness of Rocky Horror
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein: Why do we keep digging it up?
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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A tribute to Diane Keaton and what’s happened to Bond’s guns?
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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The trials of adapting “unfilmable” books
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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One Battle After Another: Does Paul Thomas Anderson finally have a box office hit?
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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RIP Robert Redford
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Disney's boy trouble
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Emerald Fennel's Wuthering Heights controversy
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Why you haven’t heard of summer’s biggest box office hit
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Following (1998): Christopher Nolan's first film
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Fatal Attraction (1987)
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Seven Samurai (1954)
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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In The Mood For Love (2000)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Anora (2024)
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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The Oscars and The Brutalist (2024)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Se7en (1995)
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Babygirl (2024)
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Juno (2007)
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Nosferatu (1922 & 2024)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Eraserhead (1977)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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The Fall (2006)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Donnie Darko (2001)
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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The Substance (2024)
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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EMERGENCY BONUS EPISODE: MEGAFLOPOLIS (or: Francis Ford Coppola's Roman Empire)
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Action Women, schwing (Point Break, American Psycho, Wayne’s World)
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Sad girls on holiday (Lost in Translation, Swimming Pool, Shirley Valentine)
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Superior Sequels: What makes part 2 better than part 1? (Inside Out 2, The Terminator 2, The Godfather 2)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Fantastic Film Follies: How to finance a flop
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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1999: Cinema's best year, ever?
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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One Take Movies: Are they a gimmick?
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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The Mummy and it’s children
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Loves Lies Bleeding: Was Kristen Stewart always this good?
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May 30, 2024 |
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Challengers v. Wimbledon: Sex, Love and Tennis
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May 16, 2024 |
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The Zone of Interest & Perfect Days: Why is mundanity powerful?
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May 01, 2024 |
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Civil War: Will A24's big budget gamble pay off?
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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The Top 5 Party Scenes in Cinema
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Baby Face: Pre-Code Horniness and the Original Sugar Baby
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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*Teaser* Next week's episode and an announcement
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Dune: Part Two (spoiler-free!)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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The Groovies: Awards Season Special 2024
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Bridget Jones's Diary: The definitive New Year heroine? (and what to watch in 2024)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Rebel without a Claus: The Groovy Movies Xmas-travaganza
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Napoleon: Are biopics bad for history?
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Saltburn: Are we really eating the rich? Ft. Culture Colander
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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May December and the blacklist we want to be on
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Finding love in a dystopian place (Fingernails, The Lobster, Her)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Does size matter? The Gravity of the cinematic experience
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Is Killers of the Flower Moon worth the runtime?
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Hex Appeal: Cinema’s Baddest Witches (Practical Magic, The Craft, The Witches of Eastwick)
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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It’s Taylor Swift’s Era and we’re just living in it (but do concert films work?)
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Nostalgiaholics: Why were 90s filmmakers obsessed with the 70s? (Dazed and Confused, Almost Famous, Boogie Nights)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Would you forget a past relationship if you could? (Past Lives, Sliding Doors, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Love Triangles on Film: How (not) to throuple (Passages, Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona, Design For Living)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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But when can we see Dune 2? Everything you need to know about the Hollywood Strikes
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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James' Desert Island DVDs (The Empire Strikes Back, Singing in the Rain, Citizen Kane)
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Has the cult of director lost its power? (My Name is Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, Inception, Reservoir Dogs)
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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The women behind Hollywood's top directors (Jaws, Raging Bull, Out of Sight)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Our Sizzling Summer Holiday Special: Viva L'Italia (Call Me By Your Name, Roman Holiday, The Great Beauty)
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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What makes a killer plot twist? (Psycho, Atonement, Parasite)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Barbenheimer Special
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Did cinema create the ‘It’ girl? (It, Mahogany, Factory Girl)
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Do we prefer our main characters with side character energy? (Grease, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club)
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May 24, 2023 |
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Edith Head: The designer who dressed Hollywood's Golden Era (Breakfast at Tiffany's, To Catch a Thief, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
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May 18, 2023 |
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Our Favourite Comfort Films (The Big Short, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, The Fall, The Mummy, Juno, Tea With Mussolini)
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May 13, 2023 |
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From Dr Strangelove to Bond: The Genius of Ken Adam (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Moonraker, Barry Lyndon, Dr. Strangelove)
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May 04, 2023 |
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What turns a bad movie into a cult classic? (Howard The Duck, The Room, Mommie Dearest, North Sea Hijack)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Fucking Bonkers French Films (Last Year at Marienbad, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Celine & Julie Go Boating, Holy Motors)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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What makes a film feel timeless? (Dune, Memento, Casablanca)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Don’t watch the movie - watch the documentary about the movie (Hearts of Darkness, Jodorowsky's Dune, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island Of Dr. Moreau)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Do blank cheques make good films? (Showgirls, Southland Tales, The Last Temptation of Christ)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Awards Season Special (part 2): The Best
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Awards Season Special (part 1): The Worst
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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[GUESTS ON CULTURE COLANDER] The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser: "We didn't need fatness to tell this story"
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Die Hard dir. by John McTiernan
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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2001: A Space Odyssey dir. by Stanley Kubrick
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Hunger dir. by Steve McQueen
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Mustang dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Hero dir. by Zhang Yimou
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The Love Witch dir. by Anna Biller
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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The Shining dir. by Stanley Kubrick
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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We Need To Talk About Kevin dir. by Lynne Ramsay
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Grizzly Man dir. by Werner Herzog
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) dir. by Jean-Luc Godard
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Bound dir. by the Wachowskis
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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The Worst Person in the World dir. by Joachim Trier
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Bringing Up Baby dir. by Howard Hawks
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Heat dir. by Michael Mann
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Licorice Pizza dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Batman Begins dir. by Christopher Nolan
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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The Conformist dir. by Bernardo Bertolucci
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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When Harry Met Sally dir. by Rob Reiner
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Everything Everywhere All At Once dir. by Daniels
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Promising Young Woman dir. by Emerald Fennell
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Jul 21, 2022 |