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‘The Nice Guys’ Getting Female-Led TV Reboot

September 28, 2017 2:58 pm

Last summer, there were two terrific, big screen comedies that everybody slept on: "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" and "The Nice Guys." It's a small crime that audiences largely shunned the films, and if y...

Podcast: Over/Under Movies Discuss The Most Underrated Movies Of 2016

Ryan Oliver

January 25, 2017 3:37 pm

News, Podcasts

Welcome back to Part Two of our Over/Under Movies year-end extravaganza. Last week, we took our overrated films of 2016 down a peg or two, but this week we return to positivity as we each suggest five different...

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, ...

The Winners & Losers Of The 2016 Summer Movie Season

Oliver Lyttelton

September 1, 2016 2:44 pm

Features

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September is here, and the fall film festivals have started —check out our Venice coverage so far, and our Telluride coverage starts tomorrow and TIFF next week. Nevertheless, the days are getting shorter and t...

Highlight The Brilliant, Awkward Violence In Shane Black’s Films

Nicholas Laskin

August 11, 2016 5:24 pm

News

Recently, filmmaker Mike Birbiglia took to Twitter to bemoan what he saw as an egregious bit of hypocrisy at the hands of the MPAA. Basically, the comedian’s second feature as a director, the excellent “Don’t T...

Why Are So Many Modern Movie Villains So Bad And Boring?

Oliver Lyttelton

August 2, 2016 2:28 pm

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“The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture,” Alfred Hitchcock told Francois Truffaut in one of the interviews that makes up the seminal “Hitchcock/Truffaut” book. And as the man who broug...

The 20 Best Films Of 2016 So Far

Jessica Kiang and Oliver Lyttelton

June 1, 2016 12:48 pm

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June is here, and with Sundance, Berlin, SXSW and Cannes over, and the summer blockbuster season well underway, the year in the film world is starting to take shape. And while superhero clashes and fairy-tale r...

Podcast: Adjust Your Tracking Hangs Out With Shane Black’s ‘The Nice Guys’

Erik McClanahan

May 26, 2016 2:07 pm

Podcasts

On this latest episode of Adjust Your Tracking, my co-host Joe von Appen, who's something of a Shane Black scholar, gets to impart his vast knowledge of the "The Nice Guys" writer/director's oeuvre. Before we d...

Box Office: ‘The Angry Birds Movie’ Flies Ahead Of ‘Neighbors 2’ & ‘The Nice Guys’

Kevin Jagernauth

May 22, 2016 1:40 pm

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While everyone declared the return of the R-rated movie with the smash success of "Deadpool," this weekend proved a bracing reminder why Hollywood is no rush that greenlight movies that don't have four-quadrant...

Shane Black Talks More ‘Predator’ Details, Defending Mel Gibson, ‘Lethal Weapon 5’ & More

Ken Guidry

May 21, 2016 10:50 am

Features, News

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Yes, it’s kind of Shane Black week on The Playlist. We scored an interview with the “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” and ”Iron Man 3” writer/director, covered a couple great podcast conversations he was part of and for th...

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