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'Paying for It' Is a Wonderful Bit of Oversharing

Directed by Sook-Yin Lee

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

The backstory alone is unlike anything else: filmmaker/musician/artist Sook-Yin Lee and cartoonist Chester Brown were in a romantic...

'Presence' Is an Unexpected Fake-Out

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2024

More often than not, Steven Soderbergh's career is spoken of as this kind of Soderbergh movie or that kind of Soderbergh movie. His...

'The Last Showgirl' Ushers In the Pamassaince

Directed by Gia Coppola

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2024

The Pamaissance is here. After 2022's 'Pam & Tommy' reappraised Pamela Anderson as a sympathetic hero, the 2023 doc 'Pamela, a love story'...

Midwife Follows a Long, Hard Road on 'No Depression in Heaven'

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2024

Marvin Heemeyer spent 18 months gathering steel for his Komatsu bulldozer. He was going to layer large metal sheets over the cab and engine...

'Rose Main Reading Room' Is Peel Dream Magazine's Very Own 50 States Project

Exclaim! Staff Picks

PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2024

I am but a simple millennial indie fan: when I hear trilling woodwinds, I think of Sufjan Stevens. There are 50 States Project vibes all...

Daniela Andrade Rides a Fearless Momentum on "Biking"

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PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2024

The obsession with biking through Toronto is a strange phenomenon I've noticed since moving here. Obviously it's also just a convenient (and...

MJ Lenderman Fights the Wind – And Wins – on the Fantastic 'Manning Fireworks'

PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2024

"Birds against a heavy wind that wins in the end," mourns MJ Lenderman in the very first words of his new album 'Manning Fireworks'...

'The Front Room' Scatelogically Squanders a Great Performance

Directed by Max and Sam Eggers

PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2024

This year has given audiences no shortage of messy, campy horror films with eccentric villains at their heart — from Nicolas Cage's creepy...