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Vaughn Swearingen

AGGRO DR1FT: Mesmerizing and Unwatchable

AGGRO DR1FT: Mesmerizing and Unwatchable

“I am the world’s greatest assassin” said in a sincere, hushed whisper by a man torn between his cartoonishly adoring family and his violent, seedy underworld business really only makes sense as an earnest line of dialogue when it’s been written by a person who also named his

The Best Films of 2024 (So Far), And What To Look Forward To

The Best Films of 2024 (So Far), And What To Look Forward To

Halfway through 2024, it's time to take a look at the year so far and what we still have left to look forward to. 2024 has already proven to be full of beautiful, brilliant cinema; haunting existential terror, energetic romantic thrills, high octane action, live action Looney Tunes

Throw Down: Born to Fight (2004)

Throw Down: Born to Fight (2004)

Hot off the international success of Ong-Bak (2003), stunt choreographer and Thai action veteran Panna Rittikrai set out to make another no holds barred stunt showcase, featuring a cast of his Muay Thai Stunt team and a group of Thai national athletes. A loose remake of his debut film, Born

The Bikeriders: Infinite Impermanence

The Bikeriders: Infinite Impermanence

The thing is, you got to keep movin’. - Warren Oates in Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop is one of the great American movies, a story of the relationship between people and the machines that take them across the endless horizon. A true road movie, one that

I'm Thinking of Spoiling Things: Hit Man // Furiosa

I'm Thinking of Spoiling Things: Hit Man // Furiosa

Where do we go, we who wander this film podcast wasteland, in search of our better episodes? Spoiling Things has a new home on Step Printed, and Stephen and Vaughn reopen everyone's favorite bar and grill at the peak of the Citadel to talk about every fortress of

The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed: Modern Romance

The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed: Modern Romance

It’s an easy feeling to have. Whether it’s one that permeates your entire being or one that just occasionally drifts through the mind, it’s an undeniable experience. That some part of life is just already gone. Opportunity missed. Maybe life is just sort of unremarkable. Dreary days

Throw Down: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Throw Down: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Nearly two decades after the conclusion of the original Matrix trilogy, after initially expressing an explicit intent to leave the story where it ended, Lana Wachowski returned to her world of cyberpunk and philosophy as a way to process grief and to protect her IP from corporate bastardization. The result