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My Wife! From Kazakhstan Saw Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. I Interviewed Her About It

When I first met Aigul Kaparova, the woman whom I would eventually marry, she told me she was from Kazakhstan.…

4 years ago
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In Hosts, Chekhov’s Gun Is Replaced by a Hammer (Podcast)

The new British horror film Hosts seems designed to provoke people, with a mix of long, slow buildups and sudden,…

4 years ago
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Yellow Rose Director Diane Paragas on the Scene She Took Directly from the News (Podcast)

Diane Paragas' film Yellow Rose is about a Filipina girl growing up in Texas who dreams of country-music stardom — but…

4 years ago
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Before The Boys Season 2 Finale, Listen to This (Podcast)

This week on the Low Key podcast we dive into Season 2 of The Boys, one of the most shocking,…

4 years ago
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Forty-Year-Old Version Moviemaker Radha Blank: You Don’t Have to Write at Four in the Morning

Radha Blank wrote, directed, produced and stars in The Forty-Year-Old Version, a semi-autobiographical film in which she plays a struggling…

4 years ago
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Class Action Park: Where Many Kids Had Their First Kiss, First Beer and First Serious Injury

Class Action Park is about Action Park, a notorious New Jersey waterpark that flourished in the unregulated '80s. When people…

4 years ago
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Antebellum Creators Explain Why We Need Another Film About Slavery

What does Antebellum, the new Janelle Monae horror film that combines real-life atrocities with a fictional narrative, add to Hollywood's…

4 years ago
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How Superman IV Became a Disaster — But Made Morgan Freeman a Star

In 1987, Christopher Reeve came back from Superman retirement to make Superman IV: The Quest for Peace — a film that became…

4 years ago
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DTF Tracks a Widowed Pilot’s Tinder Sex Spiral

In the new documentary DTF, British filmmaker Alan Bailey tries to help his airline pilot friend, "Christian" find love on Tinder after…

4 years ago
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‘He’s in the Red Sand With the Ancestors’: a Thank You to Chadwick Boseman (Podcast)

On Sunday, my wife and I spoke to our toddler about what happened to the actor who plays the hero…

4 years ago
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Charlie Kaufman and I’m Thinking of Ending Things: ‘We Live in Memory’ (Podcast)

The new Charlie Kaufman film I'm Thinking of Ending Things returns to two of his most familiar subjects: the struggle…

4 years ago
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Does Project Power Do Too Much Universe-Building? (Podcast)

Project Power, like many recent Netflix action hits, doesn't just feel like a movie: It feels like the setup for…

4 years ago
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Let’s Talk About the Domestic Horror of Shirley (Low Key Podcast)

The latest Low Key podcast covers Shirley, a film about the brilliant American Gothic author Shirley Jackson whose mid-20th century…

4 years ago
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How Daryl Davis Convinces Klansmen to Quit (Podcast)

Daryl Davis was playing piano in a Maryland truck stop when a man who turned out to be a Klansman…

4 years ago
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How Well Does The Business of Drugs Make the Case for Drug Legalization? (Low Key Podcast)

Humans have used substances to induce soberless states since the beginning of time, but Netflix’s The Business of Drugs breaks…

4 years ago
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Dan Stevens and Sheila Vand on the Thrills of Devolving Into ‘Just Complete Chaos’ in The Rental (Podcast)

At the start of The Rental, we see characters played by Dan Stevens and Sheila Vand trying to book a…

4 years ago
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Blood Circus: Where Wrestling, Rock and Fake Gold Collide (Podcast)

Blood Circus failed to deliver on the promise of its name. Created by an infomercial fake-gold salesman named Santo Gold,…

4 years ago
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We Watched Do the Right Thing Again (Podcast)

Do the Right Thing still feels sharply relevant after 31 years: Every group feels aggrieved, lashing out with both words…

4 years ago
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How Eurovision Director David Dobkins Helped Bring Tupac’s THUG LIFE Tattoo to the World (Podcast)

Netflix's hit comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga was a return to form for director David Dobkins. The…

4 years ago
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We’re in Texas, Tennessee and Massachusetts. Here’s Why We Would — and Wouldn’t — Go to a Movie Theater Now (Podcast)

I live in Tennessee. Keith Dennie, one of my Low Key Podcast co-hosts, lives in Texas. And another, Tim Molloy,…

4 years ago
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What We Want From the Justice League Snyder Cut (Podcast)

The nerd nightmare is over: the badgering has paid off, and the Snyder Cut of the DC Extended Universe’s Justice…

4 years ago
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We Summon the Darkness With Director Marc Meyers (Podcast)

We Summon the Darkness and My Friend Dahmer, two of prolific director Marc Meyers' latest films, unfurl almost opposite takes…

4 years ago
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How Sword of Trust Writer-Director Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron Gained Each Other’s Trust

Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron were ready to make a feature together. After…

4 years ago
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In Parasite, Who Should You Root For? (Podcast)

Parasite, Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-nominated thriller, challenges our sympathies throughout: Do we sympathize with the destitute Kim family? Or the wealthy…

4 years ago