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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 3d

📽️ “I tell you something, man, I’d really love to get my hands on that sleepy-eyed bastard.” 🎥
We wrap up our return to our Seven Samurai Family series with a B-movie that’s bad but still entertaining. It’s one of Jean Negulesco’s final films, The Invincible Six. #filmsky
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 10d

📽️“Live fast, fight well, and have a beautiful ending.”🎥
We continue our Seven Samurai Family series with a Roger Corman-produced sci-fi that fits the Seven Samurai bill while also cashing in on the Star Wars fever—it’s Jimmy T. Murakami’s Battle Beyond the Stars. #filmsky
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 11d

This month's Cinema Scope episode is live!

📽️ Andy and film archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur explore India’s Angry Young Man movement, examining how Amitabh Bachchan’s powerful performances in the 1970s gave voice to a generation’s frustrations and hopes. 🎥

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 17d

📽️ “They’re bad, but there’s a good side to them as well.”

We wrap up our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with a crossover into our next series—the Seven Samurai Family—with a wildly fun and exuberant film, Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay.
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 19d

“Listen, human beings. I’m Princess Elzebub. I’ve conquered the Earth. I’m your new master now.”
📽️ For our monthly member bonus ep, we backflip into Hua Shan’s crazy tokusatsu movie The Super Inframan. It’s frenetic. Non-stop. And we had a blast. Check it out! 🎥

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 19d

📽️ The Film Board's September ep is live! 🎥
What happens when Paul Thomas Anderson makes a $175 million action epic about fascism, family, and a stoner dad in a bathrobe? We spoil One Battle After Another rotten—DiCaprio, Penn, secret cabals, and all.
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 20d

📽️ Movies We Like is back from hiatus, and this month's ep is live! 🎥

Andrew McAlpine, production designer on films like The Piano, Clockers, Home for the Holidays, and Sid & Nancy, joins us to discuss Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, a movie he likes! #filmsky

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 20d

📽️ This month's Sitting in the Dark is live! 🎥
The Final Destination movies don’t just kill their characters—they make us terrified of ceiling fans, traffic jams, and more. We celebrate the franchise’s blend of paranoia, spectacle, and sheer sadistic fun. #filmsky
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 24d

📽️ “He needed the money for the operation for you?” 🎥
We continue our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with Sidney Lumet’s fantastic bank heist gone wrong, Dog Day Afternoon, starring Al Pacino and John Cazale. #filmsky
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Sep 19

📽️ “You have killed and you will kill again!” 🎥

We continue our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with Dario Argento’s Deep Red, aka Profondo Rosso, our first dip into Italian Giallo films.

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Sep 12

Sitting in the Dark bonus!
Guest host @sodacreekfilm.com joins the panel with a trio of horror films that turn belief itself into a source of terror. From cursed villages to hostile gods, we explore what happens when bedtime stories are true—and angry.
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Sep 12

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Sep 11

“I could have made mashed potatoes, but we’re having that tomorrow.”
We continue our Golden Jubilee series exploring 1975’s global cinema with Jeanne Dielman, debating how three hours of domestic routine builds to cinema’s most earned ending.

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Sep 10

Cinema Scope is back from hiatus and kicking off the new season with an ep about J-horror!

@newsfromnihon.bsky.social and Colette Balmain join Andy to unravel the eerie world of J-horror, exploring its origins, evolution, and global impact on horror cinema. #filmsky 📽️🎥

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Sep 4

We kick off our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series, celebrating 50 years of incredible, groundbreaking films. We start things off with Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. #filmsky 📽️🎥
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Sep 3

“C’mon! Take a swing at me the way Sam Spade would!”
Join us for this member bonus episode, part of our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series, discussing Arthur Penn’s neo-noir film Night Moves, starring Gene Hackman. #filmsky 📽️🎥
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Sep 3

A charming cast, a light mystery, and a lot of feelings about Netflix’s lighting presets. The Thursday Murder Club has been adapted for the screen—and The Film Board is here to investigate who did it, why it happened, and whether the cast deserves a heart. #filmsky 📽️ 🎥
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Aug 29

📽️ This month's SITD is live!
Some horror films twist; these three commit identity theft halfway through. Chelsea Stardust joins us to dig into Ghostwatch, Barbarian, and Strange Darling—movies that pull the rug so hard you’ll hit the floor laughing and screaming. #filmsky trustory.fm/sittinginthe...

The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Aug 28

We wrap up our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with the fourth feature entry in the franchise, Takashi Shimizu’s 2003 film Ju-on: The Grudge 2, in which Shimizu does an able job of changing things up and advancing the concept.
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Aug 21

📽️ “Please stop tormenting me!” 🎥
We continue our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with the big one, the one that most people probably started with because it was the move to theatrical, it’s Takashi Shimizu’s 2002 film “Ju-on: The Grudge.” #filmsky
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Aug 14

📽️ “You’ll die if you remain here!” 🎥
We continue our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with an exploration of the second straight-to-video film, which is partly a rehash of the first film, Takashi Shimizu’s 2000 film “Ju-on: The Curse 2.”
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Aug 7

📽️ “The family that used to live there, they all either died or went missing.” 🎥
We kick off our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series, our celebration looking at a quarter century of this influential J-Horror franchise, with the first film, Ju-on: The Curse.
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Jul 31

We return to the mysterious and violent world of John Wick to continue our series with the latest that introduces us to a new dancing assassin! Okay, well not at the same time. That’s right! It’s Len Wiseman’s 2025 film Ballerina starring Ana de Armas! #filmsky 📽️🎥
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Jul 30

We wrap up our year-long Roger Corman member bonus series ending on a fantastically fun high note! Join us as we have a conversation about Allan Arkush's 1979 punk rock, music-filled, laugh-riot of a film, Rock 'n' Roll High School.
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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · Jul 29

Marvel’s first family finally makes their MCU debut, but is it a first step worth taking? The Film Board dives into Fantastic Four: First Steps with cosmic ethics, Silver Surfer highs, and Galactus-sized questions about what comes next.
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