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Round-up 28: Happy PTA Week
More complexly put, it delicately walks the tightrope of being commentary on our sociopolitical landscape and simultaneously being a laugh-out-loud satirical comedy. Oh, and it’s an action film. PTA pulled out all the stops for this one, not only assembling an ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, and newcomer Chase Infiniti...

Sammy Castellino
Sep 288 min read


Round-up 21: Thrillers and Mike Judge's Best
The story follows Luke Wilson as a quite literal average Joe who gets roped into an army science experiment to be frozen, which, of course, goes wrong. He wakes up five hundred years later, as everyone has become insanely dumb through generations of inbreeding and bad traits passing down, he is the smartest man in the world.

Sammy Castellino
Jul 135 min read


Round-up 15: Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal
Nathan goes above and beyond this season in analyzing the issues behind cockpit communication between pilots and their first officers. He opens the season incredibly honestly, not making jokes or trying even to make something overtly funny at all, instead, establishing the key problems he has been studying from plane crashes around the world.

Sammy Castellino
Jun 14 min read


Round-up Week 5: Happiness & Friends
Todd Solondz will always have a special place in my heart. He is, to me, what John Waters was and is to many to this day.

Sammy Castellino
Mar 224 min read
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