If someone plugged all of the mid-tier Sundance, quarter-life crisis dramedies of the last decade about people discovering that they may be the problem of their lives into a machine and asked it to stretch all the contained clichés into a TV series, that computer would spit out “Mr. Corman.” Written, directed, produced by, and starring the multi-talented Joseph Gordon-Levitt, this Apple TV+ series (produced by A24) is the tale of a miserable man, and it wants you to be miserable too.

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It carries a lot of weight. It also doesn’t care who gets hurt or beat in the grab. Bottom line, it makes the world go round. Dinero. Coin. Dough. Bank. MONEY. For each person trying to earn it the right way, there’s two or more conniving and conning it right out of their pockets. If you need evidence, the Federal Trade Commission recently announced that Americans have lost $77 million to COVID-19 scams. A new movie called “Kajillionaire” looks at a family in dishonest pursuit of the almighty dollar and the partner they take on.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

This week’s big new release is an epic comic tribute to a giant summer event that has, alas, been canceled – so, close enough?

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

As the last of the spring theatrical releases finish the cycle to home video, we now get the Should’ve Beens – films that were all set to knock your socks off at the art houses after dazzling audiences at Sundance et.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

This week: One of last year’s big Oscar winners, an indie drama, fierce documentary that should’ve been at this year’s Oscars, and catalog titles running the gamut from Scorsese to Stallone.

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“They’re my parents,” says Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood) in a flat, affectless rasp, blinking out incredulously from behind the barely-parted drapes of her mousy, waist-length hair. “In what sense?” shoots back Melanie (Gina Rodriguez) with a directness that is almost derisive. Then, more affectionately, softer: “In what sense are they your parents?” In any other world, such a question would be absurd, unanswerable. But the parallel-universe LA of Miranda July‘s “Kajillionaire” is itself so absurd that it feels like the most astute and vital query anyone could put to this staggeringly lonely misfit, marooned on the fringes of society and swimming in a tracksuit so shapelessly oversized you could fit six more of her in it.

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It was only a couple weeks ago that we brought you news that Annapurna and Plan B were bringing audiences the latest from filmmaker Miranda July. At the time, not much was known about the film, other than it being Jully’s first feature film since 2011. Well, now we have a lot more information about the film, including the great cast.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Annapurna and Plan B have signed Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins, and Debra Winger to headline the cast for this still untitled film.

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There is a moment in Azazel Jacobs’ “The Lovers” (read our review of the movie, which opens in limited release today) that feels almost shockingly real. And it’s a small one that almost anyone watching the movie may have experienced in their own lives.

The film centers on a long-married couple, Mary (Debra Winger) and Michael (Tracy Letts), who are each having an affair with someone else as their union teeters on divorce.

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In other hands, the stripped-down premise of “The Lovers” — a decades-long marriage in its death throes — could be a dour experience or even an enjoyably nasty one. But writer/director Azazel Jacobs (HBO‘s “Doll & Em“) and his two leads Tracy Letts and Debra Winger bring a warm, bittersweet tone to a film that’s an endearing joy to watch.

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This weekend sees the final episode of “Feud,” which stars Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange as Hollywood legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, respectively, as they scheme and catfight their way through the filming of “Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?” It also sees the second weekend of “The Fate Of The Furious,” the eighth ‘Fast And The Furious‘ film which stars Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, who reportedly fell out on set due to Diesel being a “candy ass” (Johnson’s words).

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Generally speaking, A24 either acquire or debut films on the festival circuit before bringing them to cinemas, but that strategy doesn’t always need to be followed. Occasionally, there’s a film whose charm speaks for itself and whose ambitions are modest, and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t just go right to theaters. And for “The Lovers,” the indie studio is keeping things simple and doing just that.

Directed by Azazel Jacobs (“Terri“), and starring Tracey Letts, Debra Winger, and Aiden Gillen, the film follows a long-married couple who each have an affair, only to develop a stronger attraction to each other than ever before.

Continue reading Debra Winger & Tracy Letts Breakup & Makeup In First Trailer For ‘The Lovers’ at The Playlist.

Review: 'Boychoir' With Dustin Hoffman Is A Forgettable Crowd-Pleaser

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TIFF Review: ‘Boychoir’ Starring Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Debra Winger & Josh Lucas

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