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New Movie-O-Meter: Love is Strange, The Drop, and More

Our weekly round-up of new releases, ranked for your viewing pleasure, by their indispensability and watchability. Yes, we made up that word.

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6 New Gay Movies on Netflix Streaming: Edie & Thea, Beginners, A Single Man and More

With the approach of fall it’s time to make like a squirrel and start stockpiling an arsenal of entertainment to keep us satiated during what everyone is saying is […]

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DO THIS: Awesome Fest Hosts Horror Film Festival Sleepover in the Woods

This weekend Awesome Fest is taking over Adventureland Day Camp in the woods of Bensalem for its second annual Summer Camp Sleepover.

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HEADS UP: Gone With the Wind Returns to Philly Big Screens for 75th Anniversary

This one’s for you, classic film fans: Gone With the Wind, the 10-time Oscar-winning film based on Margaret Mitchell’s gangbusters 1936 novel, turns 75 this year. To […]

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8 Things To Do This Week In Philly: Battle of the Burger, David Lynch Film Screenings, What to See at FringeArts, and More

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5 New Films You Should Stream Right Now on Netflix: Killing Them Softly, An Officer and a Gentleman, Girlfight and More

Finally through the slog of (actually a pretty damn nice) summer and onto bigger and better things. If we can rip our attention away from the […]

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Movie Meter: Settle in for Eric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale

SEE IT NOW! A Summer’s Tale: You lucky people get to watch a veritable masterpiece from famed French auteur Eric Rohmer, originally from 1996, but […]

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Philadelphia’s Martin Luther King High Football Team to Be Featured All Week on ESPN

With all the news surrounding Mo’ne Davis and the Taney Dragons, there has arguably been no better time for Philadelphia youth in sports. Maybe that’s why […]

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Movie Meter: Michael Fassbender’s Papier-Mâché Head and Lemurs Win the Weekend

SEE IT NOW! Frank: There aren’t many actors of Michael Fassbender’s stature who would consent to star in a film in which he would have […]

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QFest Organizers Launch LGBT New Media Festival qFLIX Philadelphia

In April word got around that QFest—Philly’s only LGBT film festival—would be cancelled this year, but organizers hinted that something new may be coming our way […]

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7 Clues Netflix Doesn’t Know a Comedy From a Hole in the Ground

Recently I was looking for a way to pass a rainy day and turned, as I often do, to Netflix. It then came to my […]

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Movie Meter: The Giver Disappoints, Go for Land Ho! Instead

SEE IT NOW Land Ho!: (One of two exclamation-point films this week! Go figure!) Former brothers-in-law (Earl Lynn Nelson and Paul Eenhoorn), now well-aged, travel […]

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Ritz Five to Screen New David Lynch’s Duran Duran Film for One Night Only on September 10th

The Ritz Five in Old City is one of 300-some-odd theaters to screen PAFA grad David Lynch’s latest film, Unstaged, for one night only on […]

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THIS WEEKEND: The Giver‘s Brenton Thwaites and Odeya Rush at Cherry Hill Mall

Fans of all ages were invited to immerse themselves in the world of new book-to-film sci-fi flick The Giver, at a special event at the Cherry Hill […]

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Movie Meter: Into the Storm Won’t Blow You Away, But It’s a Damn Fun Ride

SEE IT NOW! Into the Storm: Okay, so it’s another cataclysmic twister flick, but the CGI is impressively disconcerting, the cast is, er, amiable enough, […]