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Nobody Understands Primer the First Time. That's the Point.

Primer cost $7,000. Shane Carruth wrote it, directed it, produced it, starred in it, edited it and scored it, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and then more or less dis

Tom Cruise's Best Performance... But No One Talks About It! (Edge of Tomorrow)

Edge of Tomorrow cost $178 million, made $381 million, and stars two of the most famous actors alive. It arrived in 2014 alongside Guardians of the Galaxy, Interstellar a

Everyone FORGOT About This Time Travel Movie With Bruce Willis & Brad Pitt (12 Monkeys)

12 Monkeys made $170 million in 1995. It stars Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt got an Oscar nomination for it. Almost nobody talks about it anymore, and there is no

Back to the Future Is More Weird Than You Think...

A beloved family film opens with a main character machine-gunned by Libyan terrorists in a mall car park, and spends its second act on a teenager talking his own mother o

20 Years Later, The Prestige Is Nolan's Best Film

Thorin has been teasing The Prestige on Four Play for over a hundred episodes. It is his favorite film of all time. MonteCristo and Richard Lewis think it is Nolan's best

Tenet Is the Only Film You Can't Watch Once

Richard Lewis turned Tenet off three times. On the fourth attempt he finally made it to the end, and he came out calling it an unfairly maligned film.   That is the sto

Nobody Attacking The Odyssey Has Actually Read The Odyssey

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey spent a year being called woke by people who never opened the poem. Then it opened to $264 million worldwide and a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Inception's Biggest Flaw Reveals Everything About Christopher Nolan

Inception is a nearly perfect film. It reinvented the summer blockbuster, proved a two-and-a-half-hour original movie about dream architecture could nearly make a billion

Satoshi Kon Predicted the Internet and Nobody Was Ready | PARANOIA AGENT

Thorin thinks Paranoia Agent sucks. MonteCristo and Richard think it's an 8 out of 10 and one of the most prescient pieces of media ever made about the internet. This is

The Most BIZARRE Anime Film That Will BLOW Your Mind

Christopher Nolan has never mentioned Paprika. Not once. The dream heist machine, the corridor where people fall through shifting gravity, the entering of dreams to steal

The Miyazaki Movie You Haven't Seen Is His Best One

Everyone's seen Spirited Away. Everyone's seen Princess Mononoke. Almost nobody has seen the 1984 Miyazaki film that's better than both of them. Richard Lewis, Thorin, an

The Matrix Stole Everything and Understood Nothing

The Wachowskis walked into a studio with a copy of Ghost in the Shell and said "we want to do that, but for real." Four years later, The Matrix made a billion dollars. Gh

Why The Internet Is WRONG About Akira

There is a sentiment going around that Akira is mid. Richard Lewis, Thorin, and MonteCristo are here to tell you that the internet is wrong, but also that the people who

Robert Duvall's STANDOUT Performance In A Feel-Good Western | OPEN RANGE

Open Range (2003) proves Robert Duvall can carry a western on his back — even when Kevin Costner is standing right next to him.   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz comp

Robert Duvall Is the Smartest Person in Every Room | A CIVIL ACTION

A Civil Action has the most stacked cast of any movie you've never seen. Robert Duvall, John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Tony Shalhoub, John Lithgow, William H. Macy, and

Is This Robert Duvall's Best Performance? | The Apostle

Robert Duvall wrote it, directed it, and delivered his career-best performance in it. The Apostle is a $5 million Southern Gothic character study about a charismatic Pent

The Most Realistic Gang Film Ever Made Was In 1988 | COLORS

Colors came out in 1988 and was the first film to put the Bloods and Crips on screen by name. It feels cheesy now. It would have felt raw as hell then. Richard Lewis, Mon

Oscars 2026: What They Got Wrong...

Marty Supreme should have won Best Picture, One Battle After Another is a career Oscar that might age like milk, and Michael B. Jordan playing two characters in Sinners i

Inglourious Basterds Has Two Perfect Scenes. The Rest Is the Problem.

After Kill Bill nearly broke them, Richard Lewis, Thorin, and MonteCristo close the Tarantino arc with the film that was supposed to prove he still had it. The verdict: I

Kill Bill 20 Years Later... It Did Not Age Well... | Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Kill Bill held a special place in a lot of hearts. The Whole Bloody Affair was supposed to be the definitive version: Tarantino's original vision restored as a single fou