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Friday, December 28, 2018 at 3:30PM President Obama (god how we miss him) randomly named his favourite movies of the year today on Instagram. Turns out he's been keeping up with critical recommendations because look at this list which is a nice mix of foreign, docs, indies, Hollywood, and Oscarables!
You can also see his favourite songs of the year on the same post.
Friday, December 28, 2018 at 12:30PM 
Every day a new Year in Review round-up as we joyfully bid 2018 adieu...
For today's entry we asked Team Experience and a few of our friends to share their favorite line reading of the year. No one was assigned anything so these are direct from our faces to your faces. Yes, Toni Collette's towering work in Hereditary is on our minds lately. Remember that gem?
And all I get back is that fucking face on your face."
Or these:
I am your MOTHER."
I did everything they told me not to do, but it didn't work. I'm happy it didn't work.
So, that was my mom’s life.
God she's extraordinary in that new horror classic, isn't she?
Okay, ready for more actorly gems as actors elevating specific lines or sometimes whole films. Here we go...
Friday, December 28, 2018 at 10:07AM by Nathaniel R
With the news that a recent stripped down experimental version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! was coming to Broadway in April 2019, we thought it might be interesting to look at the "Most Often Revived Musicals on Broadway". The list is as follows:
More on that list and movie versions after the jump...
Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 10:24PM By Glenn Dunks
Easily queasy viewers beware – Free Solo can be a daunting prospect to watch. And not just for the extraordinary climb that the film is all about, but if even just the poster churns your stomach, it’s probably not for you. Directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin follow up to Meru (of which I was less a fan for reasons I honestly don’t even remember – I watch too many movies to remember these things, apparently) charts Alex Honnold, the world’s most famous free solo rock climber, as he sets out to conquer his biggest feat yet: El Capitan, the 3000-foot vertical rock face, a granite monolith that has loomed over Yosemite for millennia.
The why of Alex’s mission remains a tantalizing carrot that dangles in front of the audience through his death-defying stunts.
Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 8:41PM John and Matthew are watching every single live-action film starring Meryl Streep.
#52 — Katharine “Kay” Graham, pioneering Washington Post publisher who authorized the printing of the Pentagon Papers.
JOHN: Since it was first announced in March of 2017, deep into the first hundred days of the Trump presidency, The Post moved at a breakneck speed from rewriting to shooting to post-production before it quickly arrived in theaters in December of that year. Spielberg had paused production on his historical drama The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara and after reading a spec script by Liz Hannah, set the gears into motion on The Post, assembling his usual team (cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, composer John Williams, editor Michael Kahn, among others), along with two screen legends who had never before shared a single frame. This urgent sense of timeliness is palpable in The Post, which is both a riveting period piece about a landmark historical moment and a rousing paean to the free press in our distressing present...
