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The trailer for MUSK, the anticipated documentary directed by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney, offers a sharp preview of what promises to be an unvarnished deep dive into the life, power, and political transformation of billionaire Elon Musk. Distributed domestically by Bleecker Street following its world premiere at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, the ambitious feature takes direct aim at Musk’s rise from visionary tech innovator to one of the most polarizing figures on the global stage. Clocking in at nearly four hours, the documentary synthesizes archival footage with fresh commentary to examine how Musk wields his tremendous influence across technology, aerospace, and contemporary politics. Gibney brings together a wide array of key voices from Musk’s personal and professional circles, including his ex-wife Justine Musk, Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard, "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton, and tech journalists Kara Swisher and Zoë Schiffer. The trailer also showcases...

  Today on the show, I'm joined by Dane Cook to talk about the new documentary about his life and career, Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story. Directed by Brett Harvey hits digital platforms on September 29th. Back in the mid-2000s, Dane Cook wasn't just big, he was everywhere. He was filling arenas, breaking records, and completely altering the footprint of modern stand-up comedy. But right at the peak of all that, everything blew up behind the scenes. The person he trusted most stole millions of dollars from him, turning his world upside down and kicking off a years-long nightmare. The doc dives into all of it: the insane rise, the brutal family betrayal, and what it actually takes to survive that level of chaos when the dust settles. It's a wildly honest look at fame, money, and the darker side of trust. Before we get into my conversation with Dane, do me a quick favor: if you enjoy the show, take a second to rate and review us wherever you're listening, hit that subscr...

The first trailer has officially arrived for You Can See Everything, an extraordinary documentary project capturing one of Silicon Valley’s most infamous figures during her final days of freedom. Directed by boundary-pushing creators Nathan Fielder (The Rehearsal) and Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven), the film offers an unprecedented, surreal look into the life of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. The film's chronicle begins just thirty-four days before Holmes is sent to prison, when she invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What starts as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon quickly unravels into a mind-bending, three-year journey into the abyss. By combining Fielder’s signature reality-bending tension with Oppenheim’s stylized human portraits, You Can See Everything promises to deliver a captivating, genre-defying experience. Check out the newly released trailer above for your first look at this audacious collaboration.

So, Scary Movie is back. Not that it was ever really gone, just quietly buried under a heap of cheap direct-to-video sequels and PG-13 rated cash grabs. This latest incarnation is properly a theatrical release, however, and it sent the Wayans brothers back to their old stomping grounds. Depending on how nostalgic you are for the crude, lewd, and generally ill-advised late ’90s/early 2000s era comedies, this news either thrilled you or made you groan in existential dread. Either way, this particular iteration of Scary Movie has already seen its theatrical run and has since become available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. I have to admit that hearing about this reboot made me skeptical. The horror parody subgenre has long since dried up and blown away with the tailwinds of the Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans era. The very concept of a “modern” horror movie is now one of those painfully self-indulgent pop culture touchstones which makes anyone who grew up during its peak cringe with every new en...

If you followed the hype building up to the release of Boots Riley's I Love Boosters, you already knew what you were getting in or out of at least; Riley doesn't make polite films that politely sit inside their shelf while he folds laundry. Just as Sorry to Bother You, this film is loud, angry, ridiculous, and uncompromising. Now that NEON has announced the official 4K UHD release, we have a chance to see how the home video package fares. Physical media collectors can be reassured by how NEON has dedicated itself to the audiovisual presentation and disc bonuses. The plot summary as seen on paper is simple enough. Riley, the film's main attraction, takes it into some strange and specific direction that involves professional shoplifters known as boosters. These boosters aren't boosting groceries from big box grocery chains to afford a home. They systematically steal pieces from luxury fashion houses, and then resell them along underground networks. It takes a turn for the...

  If you grew up in the eighties, the smell of plastic action figures stuck to your childhood. When Cannon Films decided to bring He-Man to the big screen in 1987, they were left making a ton of weird choices fueled by a shoestring budget, and an insane ambition. The result, Masters of the Universe, became an endearing, hilarious, and oddly charming hybrid of Star Wars, Jack Kirby comics, and eighties high school soap opera. Masters of the Universe was a box office disaster upon initial release, but it's since acquired a devoted cult following, and this 4K Blu-ray debut finally gives the film the physical media attention it needs. Packed with surprising special features, this disc gives the film the proper respect it's due for almost bankrupting the studio that released it. For first time viewers, or those that somehow missed it the first time around, Masters of the Universe jumps right into the action with the mad villain Skeletor (played with Shakespearean flair by Frank Lang...

Today on the show, I’m talking with director Padraic McKinley about his new film, The Weight, which lands in theaters nationwide starting today. The setup is pretty grim. It’s 1933 in Oregon, and a guy named Samuel Murphy, played by Ethan Hawke, gets ripped away from his daughter and tossed into a brutal work camp. The warden, played by Russell Crowe, offers him a way out: smuggle a haul of gold through a completely deadly stretch of wilderness for an early release. Naturally, the crew he's stuck with starts rotting from the inside with betrayal, and Murphy has to figure out just how much of his own humanity he's willing to trade off to actually see his kid again. It’s a desperate, messy story about desperate people, and Padraic and I break down how it all came together. Here is my conversation with Padraic McKinley.

Every decade or so, Hollywood decides the time is right to reinvent the absurd vehicle comedy. We've had runaway buses and subways and now we have Stop! That! Train!, a movie which takes an absurd premise so ludicrous a five year old could make up on the spot while eating sugary cereal and stretches it to a full ninety-eight minutes! Directed by Adam Shankman is the precise type of mid-budget studio comedy that used to dominate multiplexes on a random Friday in April. It does not attempt to rewrite the rules of high cinema, but rather to toss a wacked out mix of recognizable comic actors and fabulous drag performers onto a train going too fast and see who sweats off their makeup first before the end credits roll. The premise is as hilariously straightforward as you'd expect. We follow a disgraced former transit authority engineer who happens to be riding a commuter train on the exact day which a bizarre computer glitch or disgruntled villain sabotage renders the breaking system...

There was a period in the early 1980s when college campuses in movies were lawless microcosms; before every square inch of a university was watched over by omnipresent surveillance or bogged down by hyper-connected modern anxiety, you could run around a quad at two in the morning playing elaborate live-action assassination games with dart guns without instantly getting swatted. TAG: The Assassination Game (1982) encapsulates that period, it is not a pretentious cinematic statement and it is certainly not an transformative work, rather it is a slightly goofy, surprisingly tense budget thriller about kids taking a silly game too seriously until one of them snaps and starts using real bullets. The movie was directed by Nick Castle who most horror fans know best as the physical presence behind Michael Myers in John Carpenter's original Halloween, but you can see he learned a lot while working on set and understands how to use shadows, how to frame a hallway to look threatening and how ...

If you spent any reasonable amount of time lurking in the horror aisles of mom-and-pop video stores back in the VHS era, you definitely know the original cover art for Graduation Day. It had that wild, arresting close-up of a terrified woman's face with an axe shattering right through glass, anchored by that bold red title text. It was pure slasher gold, the exact kind of sleeve art that practically begged a bored teenager on a Friday night to shell out three bucks. The actual movie, as is often the case with early 80s regional schlock, doesn't quite match the insane intensity implied on the box, but it's got a weird, chaotic charm that makes it hard to completely dismiss. Released in 1981, right in the thick of the post-Halloween gold rush, Graduation Day tries to do a few different things at once and mostly stumbles through all of them. The setup is straightforward enough: a high school track star named Laura suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack right after winning a 100-...