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Review – Y2K (2024)

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Tonight, we’re partying like it’s 1999 🎉 with our review of A24’s latest horror/comedy, Y2K 📟, from Kyle Mooney! Get ready for a wild ride filled with nostalgia, chaos, and some serious 90s vibes ✨💾. 🕛

Check out our full review and let’s take this trip down memory lane! 👇🎬

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“Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year’s Eve 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight.”

Review – Saturday Night (2024)

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On October 11th, 1975, at 11:30pm, Saturday Night Live was born — and Saturday Night takes us back to the chaotic, hilarious 90 minutes leading up to that iconic first broadcast! 🎤✨

Kevin and Bob dive into Jason Reitman’s behind-the-scenes look at the frenzy, the creative sparks, and the raw energy that ignited the legendary show. From last-minute script changes to the unforgettable first sketches, this film captures the magic (and madness) that changed television forever. 🌟

Tune in for our full thoughts, wild behind-the-scenes stories, and whether this film does justice to the legacy of SNL.

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Review – Saturday Night (2024)

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Live from Cinephellas Studios, it’s our review of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night. The film takes you inside the studio in the hours leading up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live. 🎙️📹 #saturdaynight #Saturdaynightlive #MovieReview

“At 11:30pm on October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live (1975).”

Review – Brittany Runs A Marathon (2019)

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By Kevin Muller

It is always great to see new talent headline a movie. If you look up Jillian Bell, you will probably say to yourself, “oh yeah, that’s where she is from!” One of her more popular roles was playing the antagonist in 22 Jump Street, providing an uncomfortable, but hilarious, sexual tension with Jonah Hill in that film’s final confrontation. She was also a writer on Saturday Night Live for a few years. The chance to headline her own film is a pretty big step for this actress. Did the hard work pay off?

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Review – The Week Of (2018)

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by Nile Fortner

Adam Sandler and Chris Rock star in the Netflix Original film The Week Of which reunites the two former Saturday Night Live mega-stars. This is a movie coming from Adam Sandler and it’s part of Sandler’s eight-picture deal with Netflix.

Adam Sandler’s eight-picture deal with Netflix has been mostly negative with the exception of The Meyerowitz Stories, where Adam Sandler shines along with his co-stars Ben Stiller, Emma Thompson, and Dustin Hoffman. The Meyerowitz Stories showed viewers that Sandler has range as an actor and can show us a new side that we do not see very often. It took Sandler out of his comfort zone and away from the mediocre to just straight-up bad material that we’ve been getting from him over the last few years. Unfortunately, The Week Of is Sandler going back to his comfort zone and bad material.

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TV, Myself, and I (Part II): Rediscovering Ed

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by Christopher M. Rzigalinski

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Imagine this article is playing out before your eyes like a television show. The screen is black. The Foo Fighters’ song “Next Year” plays as we fade in on a familiar scene and the voiceover says, “Last time on “TV, Myself, & I.” We flashback to Part I of this article in which I discuss the Four Factors of Televisual Familiarity, or the major reasons certain television shows become significant in our lives. A montage of clips illustrates the following examples:

  1. Finding shows during transformative periods in our lives.
  2. Someone we love turning us onto a particular show and sharing it with them.
  3. Shows with sex appeal and characters we find desirable.
  4. Programs that help us develop professional dreams and attitudes we carry into adulthood.

Finally, in a dramatic cliff hanger, the voice-over reminds you that these categories often overlap and a personal case study of my relationship with the cult-favorite Ed is promised for Part II. You laugh. You cry. You get a new plate of nachos. And we’re back.

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