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‘Argylle’ Is Great, Terrible, Funny, Confusing and Way Too Long

Your opinion of “Argylle” may vary from scene to scene, revelation to revelation. And, of course, it helps if you’re a cat person. The bloated spy comedy starts strong and features a mostly nimble cast, but director Matthew Vaughn can’t leave well enough alone. What might have been a breezy romp that doubled as an …

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Christian Toto
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Enjoy the ASCII Theater – Stream Text-Based Movies in Your Terminal

Want to watch movies online for free? Give this fun experiment a shot! Though it may not be the usual HD experience you're used to. MSCHF recently launched a digital ASCII Theater online. ASCII is text-based visuals and images – using symbols and letters to create designs and objects, or in this case, entire frames of a movie. This radical NYC art collective has just launched a whole new website located at ascii.theater with instructions on how to stream and watch movies on your computer. Entirely free! All you need to do is open up your terminal on Mac (or cmd.exe on PC) and drop in the short line of code they provide, and it'll play right there in front of your eyes. Voila! There's no sound, of course, but there are subtitles. And the quality isn't great. And you can't control much. But hey you can watch the whole movie anyway! This is a clever web experiment and I dig the concept, even if it isn't really practical. Right now you can watch Barbie, though they'll switch to Hereditary ...
Alex Billington
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Growing Up in 1990s Chicago in Minhal Baig’s ‘We Grown Now’ Trailer

"Don't be afraid to fly." Sony Pictures Classics has revealed the main official trailer for an acclaimed film titled We Grown Now, set in Chicago in the 1990s. This is the third feature film created and directed by filmmaker Minhal Baig, best known for her Sundance gem Hala from 2019. We Grown Now premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival last year, and it also stopped by AFI Fest in the fall. Two young boys, best friends Malik and Eric, discover the joys and hardships of growing up in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 1992 Chicago. Starring Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez, S. Epatha Merkerson, Avery Holliday, and Ora Jones, along with Lil Rel Howery and Jurnee Smollett. This received rave reviews from TIFF, with critics saying it's a "unassuming character study set to poetic rhythms makes for an empathetic study of Black life, full of resolve." Watch out for this one - it looks very very, good. Here's the main official trailer (+ poster) for Minhal Baig's We Grown Now, direct from SPC's YouTube: In 1992 Chicago, as ...
Alex Billington