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Friday, December 7, 2018 at 11:59PM List after list every day now. Wheeee, we love this time of year even as we wish the majority of critics would actually wait for the last week of the year or the first week of the new year to do their top ten lists. Nobody has seen enough by early December is our feeling. But anyway here are a few more lists to check out from popular critics and sites...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 1:45PM An intimate convo this week as Nathaniel R welcomes Murtada Elfadl to the podcast. (Apologies for the oddly imbalanced sound - still fiddling with the equipment, wondering why we're so cursed!)
Index (42 minutes)
00:01 Desiree Akhavan's The Miseducation of Cameron Post
10:10 Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Tom Cruise's ego
21:05 Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham, and authenticity
33:00 Sorry to Bother You and LaKeith Stanfield
39:00 August is a really good month for movies for once!
You can listen to the podcast here at the bottom of the post or download from iTunes. Continue the conversations in the comments, won't you?
Saturday, July 14, 2018 at 1:00PM 
by Chris Feil
If you think that the summer movie season is winding down into boredom, Boots Riley has a debut feature to knock you off your ass. Sorry to Bother You, his Sundance breakout, is audacious filmmaking of the rarest order. Already tailor made to stir the midnight movie circuit back to life, the film is a sledgehammer to convention, taste, and politeness to make the likes of John Waters and even Jodorowsky proud.
With such wild territory, part of the thrill of the film is taking its bumps as its concept goes ever so slightly off the rails. But with this first film, Riley has delivered something delightfully convincing with complete confidence even when the film strays into the deeply strange...
Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 5:00PM by Nathaniel R
I've been reading mixed things on the success level of Marvel's latest superhero flick The Search for Michelle Pfeiffer in the Quantum Realm. Some say it's opening weekend of $76 million is a big step up from Ant-Man's debut, others think that that's all too low for a Marvel film at this juncture in their history. It does work as a nice after-dinner mint for the heavy meals of Black Panther/Infinity War (though I could've done without the bitter aftertaste of its post credits sequence.) At any rate this is the last Marvel Studios film for awhile. We now have a eight-to-nine month break from Marvel heroes unless of course Black Panther becomes a big Oscar conservation. The next Marvel Studios film is Captain Marvel (March 8th, 2019) which will be followed by the as yet untitled Infinity War Part Two (May 3rd, 2019).
| Weekend Box Office Estimates (July 6-8) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 Ant-Man and the Wasp |
 Sorry to Bother You |
| 1.🔺 ANT MAN AND THE WASP $76 *NEW* |
1. 🔺 WHITNEY $1.2 on 452 screens *NEW* |
| 2. INCREDIBLES 2 $29 (cum. $504.3) | 2. SANJU $1.2 on 359 screens (cum. $5.9) |
| 3. JURASSIC WORLD FALLEN KINGDOM $28.5 (cum. $333.3) REVIEW |
3. 🔺SORRY TO BOTHER YOU $717k on 16 screens *NEW* |
| 4. THE FIRST PURGE $17.1 *NEW* |
4. 🔺 THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS $717k on 51 screens (cum. $1) REVIEW |
| 5. SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO $7.3 (cum. $35.31) REVIEW |
5. 🔺 LEAVE NO TRACE $425k on 37 screens (cum. $800k) TRAILER DISCUSSION |
In other box office news, the LaKeith Stanfield starring comedy Sorry to Bother You opened to very full houses (albeit only 16 of them) which bodes well for significant expansion and the popular Mr Rogers doc Won't You Be My Neighbor? went wide...
