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Jon Favreau’s 2001 directorial debut Made belongs to a very specific niche of early 2000s independent cinema. With the massive success of Swingers five years earlier, expectations from distributors and viewers alike were set to a completely different level: a Swingers 2, featuring even more rapid-fire Vince Vaughn and hyper-specific Los Angeles slang. What Favreau delivered was almost an anti-buddy comedy, a cringy, stressful, and utterly hilarious experience of two lowly henchmen attempting to act like big-time mobsters in New York City. Made is a prime example of the collaboration between Favreau and Vaughn before both became mega-stars, getting absorbed by massive studio franchises. It is a slightly crude, occasionally infuriating, but ultimately hilarious slice-of-life comedy about friendship and the unwillingness of one half of it to grow up. The Film Made is a relatively simple story. Bobby (Jon Favreau), an amateurish boxer and lowly enforcer for the local Los Angeles crime boss...

Following up a masterclass in claustrophobic horror like Neil Marshall's 2005 The Descent is pretty much an impossible task. The original built such a perfect pressure cooker of paranoia, grief, and creature terror that any follow-up was always going to face an uphill climb. But 2009's The Descent Part 2 , directed by The   Descent editor Jon Harris, doesn't try to reinvent the wheel. Instead, it leans into being a fast-paced, highly entertaining monster movie that doubles down on the gore and tense underground action. For fans of the original looking for another ride through the dark, it delivers a surprisingly fun time, especially on this gorgeous new 4K UHD release. The Story picks up right where things left off. Sarah, played again by Shauna Macdonald, stumbles out of the Appalachian cave system shell-shocked, covered in blood, and missing her memories of the nightmare below. The local sheriff, Vaines, played with incredible arrogance by Gavan O'Herlihy, wastes ze...

Can you believe it’s been 25 years since Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn followed up Swingers with Made? Lionsgate Limited is marking the silver anniversary by releasing the buddy mob comedy on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and Digital on September 15th, available exclusively through the Lionsgate Limited storefront . If you haven't seen it in a while, Made holds up as a wonderfully painful cringe comedy. Favreau, who also wrote and directed, plays Bobby, a deeply average guy just trying to get through a low-level mob assignment in New York without dying of embarrassment. His main obstacle isn't the actual gangsters, though. It's his childhood friend Ricky, played with relentless, obnoxious energy by Vince Vaughn. Ricky is the ultimate loose cannon, constantly dropping hilarious nonsense slang, picking fights with bouncers, and treating a low-stakes errand like he's starring in Goodfellas. The movie works so well because it leans hard into the messy, irritating dynamic of a long-t...

John Carney basically spends his entire career remaking the exact same movie, but I cannot bring myself to be mad at him for it. Once was the raw, lo-fi version. Begin Again was the bloated Hollywood version with Keira Knightley and Adam Levine trying way too hard. Then in 2016 he hit the exact sweet spot with Sing Street, a film that takes the dreary, soul-crushing grey of 1985 Dublin and injects it with a lethal dose of cheap hair gel and synth-pop. It is a movie about being fifteen, broke, and so stupidly desperate to impress a cool girl that you accidentally form a surprisingly decent new wave band. The setup is aggressively familiar if you grew up in a house where money was a taboo subject people screamed about behind closed doors. Conor, played by Ferdia Walsh-Peelo in a performance that hits the exact right notes of teenage awkwardness, is watching his parents' marriage fall apart in real time. The Irish economy in the mid-eighties is in the toilet, so to save cash, his pare...

It is hard to believe it has been a whole decade since we first watched a squinting, floppy-haired Conor try to impress a cool girl by claiming he had a band, only to frantically assemble one from the misfit toys of his tough Dublin school. John Carney’s Sing Street remains one of the most charming and genuinely uplifting musical comedies of the modern era, beautifully balancing the grit of 1980s recession-era Ireland with the pure, escapist joy of synthesizers and shoulder pads. To celebrate this landmark tenth anniversary, Lionsgate Limited is giving fans the ultimate trip down memory lane. For the very first time, the film is receiving a pristine 4K Ultra HD release as part of an exclusive collector's set, alongside a highly nostalgic, limited-edition VHS tape for the ultimate retro physical media collectors. The semi-autobiographical story, directed with a loving touch by Carney, follows 14-year-old Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) as he navigates the minefield of a strict new public...

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse captures the chaotic reality of creative obsession with raw authenticity. Originally released in 1991, this legendary documentary chronicles the near-fatal production of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 masterpiece, Apocalypse Now. Armed with a camera and a hidden recorder, Eleanor Coppola captured the psychological unraveling of an auteur lost in the jungle, transforming a simple behind-the-scenes record into a profound study of artistic ruin. Now, a definitive three-disc box set from Lionsgate Limited rescues this classic and Eleanor’s broader filmography from obscurity, offering a comprehensive look at a family bound by cinema.