Jacob Oller
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Film Editor at @avclub.com Video Game Movie Expert Southerner in Chicago
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This is the hardest I've ever known someone didn't watch the thing they were writing about
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I can't wait for the moment in the Michael Jackson biopic where he listens to Shaq's third album and says to himself "I gotta get me some of that"
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wake up Morvern Callarheads,
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QueenCityJamz
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Sorcerer (1977) dir. William Friedkin
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Real dream-team situation going on over here.
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New Chicago Review of Architecture wants younger voices weighing in on the city’s built environment
An offshoot of the New York Review of Architecture, the magazine will feature “erudite, humorous and hyperlocal writing.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/chicago-review-of-architecture/
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A favorite of Guillermo del Toro, Él is a thrilling/upsetting marital drama from Mexico's Golden Age that starts at emotional abuse and spirals into madness. My Criterion column this month on the new 4K restoration of this Luis Buñuel classic:
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Cult Of Criterion: Él
Luis Buñuel injected his masterful Mexican melodrama Él with just enough uncanniness to poison its lead's mind.
https://www.avclub.com/cult-of-criterion-el
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When I realize a new horror movie is a metaphor for trauma
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now that it's back in the news, a reminder that Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is such a satisfying mock-doc because it speaks more clearly about Trump/Epstein than basically any news coverage (even though it's joking)
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Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile writes a damning birthday note to the true-crime industry
The Onion mockumentary Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile asks and answers hard-hitting questions about a news cycle almost beyond parody.
https://www.avclub.com/jeffrey-epstein-bad-pedophile-the-onion-mockumentary-true-crime
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A favorite of Guillermo del Toro, Él is a thrilling/upsetting marital drama from Mexico's Golden Age that starts at emotional abuse and spirals into madness. My Criterion column this month on the new 4K restoration of this Luis Buñuel classic:
www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...
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Cult Of Criterion: Él
Luis Buñuel injected his masterful Mexican melodrama Él with just enough uncanniness to poison its lead's mind.
https://www.avclub.com/cult-of-criterion-el
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Jesus punches Satan in the face in The Carpenter's Son (a film where Nicolas Cage plays Joseph!) and it's STILL boring
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Jesus Christ, The Carpenter's Son is bland Biblical horror
Nicolas Cage parents the messiah during the horror-adjacent The Carpenter's Son, Christ's first and most boring temptation.
https://www.avclub.com/the-carpenters-son-review
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Jesus punches Satan in the face in The Carpenter's Son (a film where Nicolas Cage plays Joseph!) and it's STILL boring
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Jesus Christ, The Carpenter's Son is bland Biblical horror
Nicolas Cage parents the messiah during the horror-adjacent The Carpenter's Son, Christ's first and most boring temptation.
https://www.avclub.com/the-carpenters-son-review
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glen powell's range in The Running Man is incredible
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The James Bond problem was so simple to solve until Amazon's proposed solution (an Amazon delivery saves him at the last second) was scooped by War Of The Worlds
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Good movie alert: The Things You Kill whips! A quiet and cerebral thriller about hating your family and yourself, and coming around on both
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You'll never be free of The Things You Kill in this twisty, tense thriller
Canadian Oscar entry The Things You Kill watches a Turkish family implode under the weight of their secrets.
https://www.avclub.com/the-things-you-kill-review
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Good movie alert: The Things You Kill whips! A quiet and cerebral thriller about hating your family and yourself, and coming around on both
www.avclub.com/the-things-y...
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You'll never be free of The Things You Kill in this twisty, tense thriller
Canadian Oscar entry The Things You Kill watches a Turkish family implode under the weight of their secrets.
https://www.avclub.com/the-things-you-kill-review
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Aaron Sorkin’s ICE will be flopsweating itself silly while a dozen awesome B movies Rebel Ridge agents left and right
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snow never stops real ones
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Dave Levitan
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Hearing from more people after this went out. "We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."
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Hoop Dreams!! Good and evil, love and hate, success and failure, vice and virtue - all in two Chicago households, all on the basketball court
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Nia DaCosta's Hedda is basically what every season of The White Lotus wants to be
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just thinking about Kenneth Branagh's FMV Hamlet
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Train Dreams is in theaters this weekend before it goes to Netflix and you should see it in theaters. It's excellent. I've seen a couple times already and I'd still drop everything for 95 minutes and watch it again right now
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Train Dreams persist through changing times in ethereal, awestruck drama
Train Dreams is a thoroughly engrossing period piece of dreamy details, quietly told and expertly performed.
https://www.avclub.com/train-dreams-review
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Yes!!! Leila!!
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Jesse Hassenger
6 days ago
I thought the controversial choice I made here would involve PREDATORS (2010) but so far the commenters think it involves THE PREDATOR (2018). Both of which are good!
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I cannot fully vouch for the final Predator ranking here, but always a treat to read
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Run The Series
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Like their prey, the Predator movies have evolved in order to survive
The flexible Predator franchise has changed alongside its longtime Alien counterpart, with fewer classics but more eccentricity.
https://www.avclub.com/predator-run-the-series
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not a great week when White Chicks On An Airplane is one of the better viewing experiences
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I did not care for In Your Dreams, a Netflix animated film which felt like one of those mundane nightmares where you think you're going to work and then you wake up and have to go to work
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A unique, thought-provoking animated adventure for kids? In Your Dreams
The forgettable, unimaginative Netflix animation In Your Dreams bobbles its themes and keeps its aspirations small.
https://www.avclub.com/in-your-dreams-review
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Ally
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Seeing this at
@musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
tomorrow. That trailer just made it feel like one that needs to be seen on a big screen!
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I did not care for In Your Dreams, a Netflix animated film which felt like one of those mundane nightmares where you think you're going to work and then you wake up and have to go to work
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A unique, thought-provoking animated adventure for kids? In Your Dreams
The forgettable, unimaginative Netflix animation In Your Dreams bobbles its themes and keeps its aspirations small.
https://www.avclub.com/in-your-dreams-review
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Will Harris
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The Random Roles you've been waiting for: Diane Lane.
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Diane Lane on the cautionary Anniversary, the slept-on Rumble Fish, and panicking on live TV
Diane Lane discusses acting with Laurence Olivier, flying in Kenny Rogers' helicopter, and being pissed about a decades-old Emmys snub.
https://www.avclub.com/random-roles-diane-lane-interview-anniversary-rumble-fish-six-pack-streets-of-fire-secretariat
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Chicago: go ham on these free Hamnet tickets
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I thought Dolly Parton hogtied this dude
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this series was built for me by scientists after a long period of observation so I can't wait to watch it all
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8 days ago
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Cam
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i'm so excited. i just read the novella and it is one of my absolute favorite pieces of writing
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Train Dreams persist through changing times in ethereal, awestruck drama
Train Dreams is a thoroughly engrossing period piece of dreamy details, quietly told and expertly performed.
https://www.avclub.com/train-dreams-review
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"now that's very interesting, very interesting, because I have some experience with these kinds of weapons"
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Train Dreams is in theaters this weekend before it goes to Netflix and you should see it in theaters. It's excellent. I've seen a couple times already and I'd still drop everything for 95 minutes and watch it again right now
www.avclub.com/train-dreams...
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Train Dreams persist through changing times in ethereal, awestruck drama
Train Dreams is a thoroughly engrossing period piece of dreamy details, quietly told and expertly performed.
https://www.avclub.com/train-dreams-review
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Incidentally there’s a movie about the Nuremberg trials out this weekend
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8 days ago
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gotta keep these bad boys up long enough for me to watch Avatar: Fire and Ash on them
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9 days ago
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great night to throw on Mississippi Masala and get laid
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Pamela Paul is like if JK Rowling was broke BUT the court system kept citing her unhinged ramblings as if they mattered
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Katie talked to some guys I really really really disagree with about AI
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rat posting from the lab
11 days ago
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The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles
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somewhere out there is a “Sam Rockwell from G-Force” guy and I hope he has a great day
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What if we circled back with each other in the Synergy aisle
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My small Airbnb contains exactly three films, and gun to my head I couldn’t tell you why it’s these three
12 days ago
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worm adderall (feral)
13 days ago
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
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🦃 Matthew Jackson 🦃
13 days ago
Happy Halloween! For
@avclub.com
, I asked Oz Perkins to program a 24-hour horror marathon, and his picks are incredible.
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24 hours of horror with Oz Perkins
Selecting his own 24 hours of horror marathon, Oz Perkins, the director of Longlegs and The Monkey, has your Halloween watchlist covered.
https://www.avclub.com/24-hours-of-horror-with-oz-perkins
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