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‘8MM’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

The Rewatchables

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Machine: A Con Conspiracy Movie With No Conspiracy

The mask is great. It's one of the best scary, uncomfortable masks. I think any bad guy has worn in a movie. There's something captivating and weird and damaged about this guy. And it's one of those rare characters where I wish there was more. The character who worked in this random porn shop was disinformed on the whole world. He's basically like the Adrian Wojnarowski of the CD porn scene in LA. This trope of like underground sexually deviant community that's like lurking out there is like a big one in crime fiction in the 70s, 80s.

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