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English
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234 episodes
since Nov. 18, 2016
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The Changeling (1980) directed by Peter Medak. Happy Canadian Halloween! Composer John Russell (George C. Scott) is vacationing with his family when a car accident kills his wife and daughter. Distraught with grief, Russell leaves his home in New York City for a giant, secluded house near Seattle…

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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) directed by Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger. Three teenagers are accused of this horrific crime of killing three children, supposedly as a result of involvement in Satanism. As in their previous documentary, things turn out to be more co…
Cry Freedom (1987) directed by Richard Attenborough. Donald Woods is the chief editor at the liberal newspaper 'Daily Dispatch' in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko, but after having met him, he changes his views and attracts attention from the secu…
Murs Murs (1980) directed by Agnes Varda. When her own mooted U.S. project fell through, Varda found herself stranded back in California, temporarily separated from Demy, and with her seven-year-old son in tow. Rather than give in to disappointment, she got back to work and created Mur Murs and _D…
Godzilla Minus One (2023) directed by Takashi Yamazaki. In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horro…
Godzilla Minus One (2024) directed by Takashi Yamazaki. In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror…
It Was Just an Accident (2025) directed by Jafar Panahi. An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend …
Boyz n the Hood (1991) directed by John Singleton. One of the greatest debuts in American cinema, John Singleton’s first feature is a harrowing and compassionate immersion into the lives of three Black teenage boys grappling with the uncertainty of their futures. Growing up in South Central Los A…
Maborosi (1995) directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. Despite her outwardly happy and tranquil life as a wife and new mother, Yukimo (Makiko Esumi) is regularly troubled by a horrific nightmare about the death of her grandmother. When tragedy strikes her husband, Ikuo (Tadanobu Asano), the stress forces Y…
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) directed by Peter Weir. In 1805, aboard the H.M.S. Surprise, the brash Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) and his trusted friend, the ship's scholarly surgeon, Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany), are ordered to hunt down and capture a powerful Fr…
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