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‘The First Purge’ Trailer: Behind Every Tradition Lies A Revolution

April 6, 2018 10:09 am

In an era when it seems that laws are suspended or remade every minute or every day, a horror movie based around the premise where for just 12 hours justice is thrown out the window seems quaint. But Universal ...

2018 Oscar Nominations: Snubs & Surprises

The Playlist Staff

January 23, 2018 11:48 am

Awards, Features, News

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A friendly reminder: The awards season doesn’t need to be awful and it’s really only as unbearable as you chose to make it. Yes, it can certainly be annoying, but, if you look at it as awards given out by a gro...

Marvel Studios' BLACK PANTHER T'Challa/Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) Credit: Matt Kennedy/©Marvel Studios 2018

See A Ton Of New Photos From ‘Black Panther,’ Film Is A “Cross Between James Bond And The Godfather”

The Playlist Staff

July 12, 2017 10:11 am

News

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Maybe it's the warm glow of the disarmingly charming “Spider-Man Homecoming,” but we’re feeling pretty good about the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ok, so it might be tough to get truly enthusiastic ...

BAMcinemaFest 2017: 8 Must-See Films To Watch

The Playlist Staff

June 14, 2017 4:35 pm

News

Many of the world’s most prestigious film festivals happen elsewhere — Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, SXSW — but BAMCinematek always has your cinephile back every summer with their BAMcinemaFest festival. Carefully...

R.I.P. Bill Paxton (1955-2017)

The Playlist Staff

February 26, 2017 11:10 am

News

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Bill Paxton, the effortlessly talented actor and filmmaker, has passed away at the age of 61. The term "character actor" is often thrown around and applied to anyone who works in a variety of movies, but few...

25 Movies About Kinky, Compulsive, Fetish & Taboo Sex [NSFW]

The Playlist Staff

February 8, 2017 12:49 pm

Features, News

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While sex — as in, coitus, rumpy, intercourse, balling, banging, humping, boffing, bonking, riding, ploughing, boning, porking, rutting, schtupping, shagging and obviously fucking — does feature in some shape o...

The Snubs & Surprises Of The 2017 Oscar Nominations

The Playlist Staff

January 24, 2017 11:12 am

Features, News

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People get excited about Oscar nominations day in part to see how their favorite films or actors do with the Academy. But we also get to see, after months of prognostication, precursors and predictions, what cu...

The 25 Best Performances Of 2016

Katie Walsh and The Playlist Staff

December 22, 2016 12:30 pm

Features

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Condensing a manageable list of our favorite performances of the year proved to be far more difficult than expected, and it was a hard-fought battle amongst The Playlisters to determine who would make the cut a...

The 22 Best Documentaries Of 2016

Katie Walsh and The Playlist Staff

December 21, 2016 12:16 pm

Features

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We’re deep into the week before Christmas and still cutting a swath through our Best/Worst/It’s Complicated Year-End coverage, most of which we hope you’ve all read and enjoyed, or at least been engaged by (it’...

The 25 Best Action Sequences Of 2016

The Playlist Staff

December 16, 2016 2:24 pm

Features

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A few weeks into our annual year-end binge of the Best and Worst of the movies in 2016, and we’ve looked at the finest trailers and posters, the best movies and TV shows, the breakthrough directors and actors, ...

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