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Sep 21, 2016 Music Beach Slang

Following quickly on the heels of several EPs and last year’s excellent debut LP, The Things We Do to Find People Who Think Like Us, Beach Slang has quickly released the follow-up less than a year later.

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Goat

Studio: Paramount
Directed by Andrew Neel

Sep 21, 2016 Cinema Web Exclusive

Goat, a film based on Brad Land’s memoir recounting his experience pledging a fraternity, treats this widely-accepted American rite of passage with the horror it deserves.

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Sep 20, 2016 Music Web Exclusive

After collaborating to produce one of the top five best-selling albums of all time, a schism grew between singer Meat Loaf and songwriter Jim Steinman. It took them 16 years to make amends and follow Bat Out of Hell with its potent sequel, Bat Out of Hell II; however, their peace treaty was short-lived.

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My Blind Brother

Studio: Starz Digital
Directed by Sophie Goodhart

Sep 20, 2016 Cinema Web Exclusive

As the blind, overachieving Robbie, Scott hilariously plays his most punchable character yet—an impressive feat for an actor who seems to specialize in douchebaggier comedy roles.

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The Good Place

NBC, Premieres Monday, September 9 at 10/9 Central

Sep 19, 2016 TV Web Exclusive

A series pilot has to walk a rather tricky line of setting up a series premise, giving a hint of things to come, and, you know, being entertaining. As far as pilots go, NBC’s The Good Place (from Parks and Creation co-creator Michael Schur) hits it out of the park with all of the above-not to mention some honest to goodness earned laughter.

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Blood Simple

Studio: Criterion

Sep 19, 2016 DVDs Web Exclusive

Revisiting the 1984 debut of writing/directing team Joel and Ethan Coen somehow only serves to amplify their mystique.

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Sep 19, 2016 TV Web Exclusive

The murder of six-year-old child beauty pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey rocked America starting the day after Christmas, 1996. Twenty-years later, the murder remains one of the most publicized and speculated about unsolved crimes of recent note.

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Sep 19, 2016 Music Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart is an artist. Recently, the music for which he is widely recognized has been demarcated by periods of his lesser known visual art, where open hearted interaction with forms and figures may be shaping his recordings.

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At All Costs

Studio: XLrator Media
Directed by Mike Nicoll

Sep 19, 2016 Cinema Web Exclusive

The truth the film makes abundantly clear is that amateur basketball in America is now a big money game, and anything but amateur.

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