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Welcome to  Commentary Commentary, where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts. In this edition, Rob Hunter revisits the best film of 2019, Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. This may be hard to believe, but it was only nine months ago that Bong Joon-ho ‘s Parasite stormed the Academy Awards and won four Oscars including Best Picture. It’s been available on Blu-ray for some of that time, but now Criterion has released the film loaded with new extra features. Along with the new interviews we get a commentary track featuring Bong and a British film critic. The duo recorded the Parasite commentary during the pandemic with the filmmaker in Seoul and the critic in London, and it’s an informative and engaging listen. Now keep reading to see what I heard on the Parasite commentary! Parasite (2019) Commentators: Bong Joon-ho (writer/director), Tony Rayns (critic/moderator) 1. The onscreen title...

Early on in David Fincher ‘s sharp, smart, and beautifully shot Mank , the legendary media mogul William Randolph Hearst ( Charles Dance ) shares an exchange with screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz ( Gary Oldman ) about the value of words. The newspaper tycoon rightly predicts that talking pictures are the future, and they’ll “need people who honor words to give them a voice.” Mankiewicz, or Mank to those who know him, is cynically surprised to see the “muckraker” express a care for the integrity of the written word, but as both men built their careers on the idea, this agreement marks the beginning of an increasingly combative relationship — and the seeding of what would one day become Mank’s script for a little film called Citizen Kane (1941). Fincher’s latest, written by his late father Jack Fincher , is less about the making of Orson Welles’ masterpiece than it is about the changing of a man and the industry he calls home. Mank moves back and forth across a decade, grounded in a lat...

Ending Explained is a recurring series in which we explore the finales, secrets, and themes of interesting movies and shows, both new and old. This time, we dive into the ending of Possessor (Uncut). Brandon Cronenberg ’s second feature film, Possessor , is a beautiful piece of sci-fi body horror full of crushed skulls and buckets of blood. Much of the praise around the film focuses on its visuals and ultraviolence, which are indeed dazzling. But it is about more than just death. Through the sea of violence and viscera arises a film about what it means to truly be yourself.  Tasya Vos ( Andrea Riseborough ) is a new kind of assassin: she infiltrates the mind of someone close to her target. In taking over their mind and body, Tasya can commit the perfect crime with no suspicion brought against her or her employer. For her next job, she takes over Colin ( Christopher Abbott ), who is dating the daughter of the target ( Sean Bean ). It’s a typical job — not too complicated and q...

Streaming might be the future, but physical media is still the present. It’s also awesome, depending on the title, the label, and the release, so each week we take a look at the new Blu-rays and DVDs making their way into the world. Welcome to this week in  Home Video for November 3rd, 2020! This week’s home video selection includes Game of Thrones in 4K UltraHD, two John Wayne films from the 40s, and more. Check out our picks below. Pick of the Week Games of Thrones – The Complete Collection [4K UltraHD] What is it? Swords and dragons and boobs, oh my. Why see it? HBO’s epic fantasy series was a cultural phenomenon during its run for understandable reasons. It’s big entertainment filled with warring factions, engaging characters, heroes, villains, unexpected deaths, and dragons. Its earlier seasons were also heavy with the T&A, if that’s your bag. Well not every narrative thread comes to the ideal resolution, more than enough of them deliver drama and thrills t...

Welcome to Horrorscope , a monthly column keeping horror nerds and initiates up to date on all the genre content coming to and leaving from your favorite streaming services. Here’s a guide to all the essential horror streaming this November : Well, well, well. I bet you thought Halloween was over just because it’s November now. Wrong. Halloween is something you carry in your heart year-round. So keep the horror floodgates open. Because this month is jam-packed with haunted houses, wistful witches, and degenerate daddies (oh my!) Yes, much like a seemingly felled slasher villain, the horror genre will not go quietly from streaming services just because the jack o’ lanterns are starting to rot. And really, a good dose of depravity fits in nicely amidst all those sinister, smokey Noirvember watchlists. In honor of this call to keep the morbid momentum going, this month’s theme is: I’m not dead yet! We’ve got two spectrally supernatural highlights from equally superb genre collecti...

Crossing the Streams is our monthly look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the new Netflix arrivals for November 2020. This month’s titles include Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy, Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square, and the return of Kurt Russell as Santa Claus! Keep reading to see what’s new to Netflix for November 2020! Netflix Pick of the Month for November 2020 Alien Xmas lands under the tree starting November 20th, and while I don’t typically recommend non-features (this animated special clocks in at under an hour), it’s unavoidable in this case. Why? Because it comes from the Chiodo Brothers, the mad minds behind 1988’s masterful blast Killer Klowns from Outer Space ! Sure it’s animated instead of filled with all manner of practical madness, but it’s most assuredly still a must-see. The story involves an impending alien invasion of Earth with only an elf, an alien with a conscience, and the spirit of Chris...

Acting is an art form, and behind every iconic character is an artist expressing themselves. Welcome to The Great P erformances , a bi-weekly column exploring the art behind some of cinema’s best roles. In this entry, we look at Tony Todd’s titular role in Candyman . Before the character came to symbolize our nation’s legacy of racial prejudice, Candyman was just a supernatural slasher conceived by Clive Barker , the visionary mind behind the Hellraiser series. In “The Forbidden,” part of the multi-volume omnibus Books of Blood , Candyman is an urban legend entity brought to life the moment his existence is challenged by Helen, a graduate student working on a thesis about the graffiti in a deteriorating English housing development. This central concept is faithfully realized in writer-director Bernard Rose ’s 1992 Candyman film, but he moves the story’s theme of urban decay out of the Liverpool projects and into the sprawling concrete high-rises of Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Gre...

Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons , our weekly column where we continue the animated boob tube ritual of yesteryear. Our lives may no longer be scheduled around small screen programming, but that doesn’t mean we should forget the necessary sanctuary of Saturday ‘toons. In this entry, we wander into the woods and foolishly resist the dread uncovered Over the Garden Wall. Grappling with fear is an essential component of existence and an all-encompassing battle as a child. There are monsters in the closet, under the bed, in the shadows, and in the hearts of others. The world is a swirling sandstorm of what-ifs. And the impossible knowledge of the future stunts most from acting on their aspirations. To do nothing is to remain safe from harm, both physical and psychological. As we age, we pretend we’ve conquered fear, supplanting ideology atop the emotion to mask the jangling, shivering bones beneath our skin. The kids who stayed under the covers mature into sheepish followers of the ...

Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a montage of the evolution of the final girl. Final girls are as essential to horror as slasher villains and jump scares. But their legacy is a complicated one , to say the least. Final girls carry a lot of damage. And I don’t just mean a stray knife slash here and there. Coined by Carol J. Clover in her book Men, Women, and Chainsaws , the “final girl” trope refers to the last woman standing at the end of a bloodbath who escapes and sometimes vanquishes her would-be killer. Even in the many incarnations since the trope’s first bonafide appearance in 1970s slashers, a number of troubling through-lines persist to this day. It’s true that disproportionally women are vessels for much of the world’s violence. But the expectation that victimhood is a singularly feminine burden exposes a less empathetic angle. Namely, that audiences will not identify with men in sim...

Hello and welcome to  Up Next , a weekly column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week,  Liz Baessler  takes a look at the Amazon Prime series Truth Seekers. For my money, the horror-comedy to end all horror-comedies is Shaun of the Dead . It’s required viewing every Halloween, as well as any non-spooky time of the year when you might need a little pick me up. So, by all logic, Truth Seekers , Amazon Prime’s new horror-comedy series written in part by Shaun of the Dead stars Nick Frost and Simon Pegg , ought to find itself in the same pantheon. Even if it doesn’t earn a quite as vaunted a position, it ought to be good, right? You’d think. Truth Seekers has a fun enough premise. Gus (Frost) and Elton ( Samson Kayo ) are wifi installers for the not-at-all sinister-sounding internet provider Smyle. One wizened with experienced and one fresh on the job, they’re a professional odd couple with a dynamic as old as time. The cool new twist is that the...