FilmWeek
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FilmWeek: ‘Wild Horse Nine,’ ‘Godzilla Minus Zero,’ ‘I Play Rocky’ and more!
The topic: FilmWeek critics Christy Lemire, Katie Walsh, and Charles Solomon join Larry Mantle to discuss Wild Horse Nine, writer-director Martin McDonaugh’s latest film starring John Malkovich who is already getting Oscar nomination buzz for his performance. They’ll also talk about The Cat in the…
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Feature: Remembering Patrick Stewart
The topic: In 2023, Larry Mantle interviewed actor Patrick Stewart, best known for his roles as Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men and as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek, for his memoir Making It So. We revisit Larry’s conversation with Stewart in memory of the late actor who died at the age …
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FilmWeek: ‘The Mosquito Bowl,’ ‘Everest: The Other Side,’ ‘Gentle Monster,’ and more!
The topic: Larry Mantle and critics Manuel Betancourt and Maureen Lee Lenker talk about the new documentary Everest: The Other Side from the directing duo behind Oscar-winner Free Solo (2018). They also review SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of , a documentary about the Canadian sketch-…
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FilmWeek: ‘Clayface,’ ‘Wicker,’ ‘Wildwood’ and more!
The topic: Larry Mantle and FilmWeek critics review the latest DC Comics adaptation Clayface starring Tom Rhys Harries and Naomi Ackie along with a lot of gore. They also talk about LAIKA’s stop-motion spectacle Wildwood, the longest stop-motion animation film in history. The films: Clayface, Wi…
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FilmWeek: 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'You Can See Everything,' 'La Bola Negra' and more!
The topic: FilmWeek critics Lael Loewenstein and Tim Cogshell discuss the new reboot of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles, and You Can See Everything, the new documentary on Elizabeth Holmes from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. They’ll also r…
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Feature: The ‘Frat Pack’ comedies of the early 2000s
The topic: In his new book, Funny Business: The Old-School Wedding Crashers and Knocked-Up Virgins Who Changed Comedy Forever,film critic and author Matt Singer discusses the comedy boom of the early aughts, the “Frat Pack” that dominated the era, and the lessons contemporary studios can take from…
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FilmWeek: ‘The Social Reckoning,’ ‘Musk,’ ‘Tenzing’ and more!
The topic: FilmWeek critics Katie Walsh and Claudia Puig join host Larry Mantle to discuss the biggest releases of the week, including screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to The Social Network, The Social Reckoning of which Sorkin also directs. And they’ll review this year’s Palm d’Or winner at …
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Feature: Richard Linklater on Nouvelle Vague and its Criterion release
The topic: Richard Linklater’s 2025 film Nouvelle Vague tries to accurately capture the filming process of one of French New Wave’s most influential films — Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960). Shot in black and white and almost entirely in French, Linklater transports viewers back to 1959 Paris …
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FilmWeek: ‘Digger,’ ‘Verity,’ ‘Atonement’ and more!
The topic: FilmWeek critics Tim Cogshell and Christy Lemire disagree on the effectiveness of Alejandro Iñárritu’s new film Digger starring Tom Cruise, but they do agree that everyone should see it, if only to partake in the discussion. Also out this week is the drama Atonement that shows the ramif…
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Feature: Documentarian John Wilson talks about ‘The History of Concrete’
The topic: Finding humor and fascination in the mundane is John Wilson’s signature. After closing out his acclaimed HBO series How To with John Wilson, the documentarian picks up right where he left off, but this time with a feature film examining one of New York’s most foundational materials: con…
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