10 Fastest Knockouts in UFC History (Videos)
Ironically, the shorter the fight due to a knockout, the greater the value for ticket money when it comes to UFC knockouts.
It's pretty amazing to watch a fight conclude after a few short seconds.
The Ultimate Fighting Championships…
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New on Video: ‘What?’
What? is simply not the type of film one expects from a director as skilled as Roman Polanski. At best, it is for a curious few or a devoted Polanski completest (the only reason I’ve now seen it twice).
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“It’s Only the End of the World”: The Dolan Charm is There but Verbose Family Drama Underdelivers
Xavier Dolan’s new film seemed like the event so far at Cannes judging by the longest press queue since the beginning of the festival, as well as the hustlers offering hugs in exchange for a screening invitation. Unfortunately, it seems…
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Watch a Recruitment Video for Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters
Look, if you're living in a sci-fi or fantasy setting....just don't go to schools. Seriously. In prettymuch any genre environment, schools are ground zero for more kinds of dangerous, messed-up stuff than you can imagine. Want to go to…
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Pokespectic Part 3: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
When the third generation Pokemon games were released, I had found myself moving away from the series. I was getting a little older and, like many teenagers, I didn't want to associate with things from childhood. I feel like a lot of fans…
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“Aquarius”: Nostalgic Brazilian Thriller Doesn’t Quite Fulfil Its Promise
“Aquarius”, former film critic Kleber Mendonça Filho’s second feature film starring Brazilian screen legend Sonia Braga, had quite an eventful Cannes premiere yesterday with the film’s crew taking out printed A4 sheets with slogans against…
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‘The Walking Dead’ Is Getting a Theme Park Attraction, With Help From Greg Nicotero
Personally, I like a screen to be between me and any flesh-hungry zombies, real or otherwise. I don't need some animatronic ghoul making eyes at my kidneys, no sir. But a lot of people have more mettle than me, and for those people…
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‘Civil War II’ #0 is ‘Minority Report’ with superheroes
Civil War II #0 definitely has a "prologue" feel and not much in the way of action or twists other than the president of the United States saying that he wants James Rhodes to take his spot in the future. (There is a little bit of a…
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Top 10 Richest Monarchs on the Planet
The concept of a monarchy may have all but lost its meaning in the United States, but in the rest of the world, the top earners of some countries come from this class.
Monarchies are a form of government which differs from a democracy,…
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‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot Gets a New Trailer – More Ghosts, More Gags, More Slimer
Oh, what a saga this has been. The internet kerfuffle over the very existence of a new, female-driven Ghostbusters movie has been one of the more loud, vocal and stupid ones in recent memory, from the near-constant background noise of…
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Ma’ Rosa: Powerful, Artifice-Free Drama from the Gutters is This Year’s Reality Check
Last year, we got underdog “Dheepan” and “Dheepan” got the Palme D’Or.
This year, the same day saw the bourgeois artifice of Pedro Almodóvar’s uninspiring “Julieta”, “Aquarius” from Brazil that fetishes its glamorous, ageing bourgeois…
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“Loving” by Jeff Nichols: Gorgeous, Wistful Drama on Slavery Leftovers is the Most Mainstream Palme…
It’s hard not to like Jeff Nichols’ latest drama “Loving”, a biopic of real-life couple Richard and Mildred Loving, who in the late 1950’s were expelled from the state of Virginia for contracting an interracial marriage in Washington DC.…
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‘Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End’ unearths gold one last time
There's n'ateing to it
How do you end a series after it's defined a platform for nearly 10 years, where do you take those characters? Uncharted 4 attempts to solve these questions and does so by delivering a narrative that grounds itself…
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Veep, Ep. 5.04: Selina Pulls the Plug on “Mee-Maw”
Veep, Season 5, Episode 4: “Mee-Maw”
Written by Alex Gregory & Peter Huyck
Directed by Dale Stern
Airs Sundays at 10:30pm on HBO
For Selina Meyer, winning trumps all other personal concerns, whether those entail being…
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Gotham, Ep. 2.21, “A Legion of Horribles” makes a big splash with Fish Mooney’s return
“A Legion of Horribles” gives more than enough attention to Bruce’s development while also giving the return of Fish Mooney the appropriate fanfare that will continue this series going as it goes into its possibly explosive season finale…
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“Personal Shopper”: Naked Kristen Stewart is the Best Thing about Preposterous…
Olivier Assayas seems to have taken more than a purely directorial liking to Kristen Stewart which is just as well seeing that her face and body (acting is a whole different story) are probably the best thing about his ridiculous Palme D’Or…
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Video Games and Sibling Bonding in ‘Player Two’ Animated Short
It's funny to believe that we're only just getting out of the first generation to have videogames as a formative part of their childhood. Those of us who spent their early years guiding Mario and Link through 8-bit adventures are only…
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“Paterson” by Jim Jarmusch: Trying Too Hard for Not Much
Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” is the second film at this year’s festival with poetry as its central theme, though unlike Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surrealist extravaganza “Endless Poetry”, “Paterson” deals in the so-called poetry of the everyday…
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“American Honey”: Somewhat Underwhelming but Lets Shia Labeouf Shine
Three-hour or so films are all the rage this year!
Andrea Arnold joined this club today with the premiere of her fourth feature and first-US set drama “American Honey”. Arnold is one of my favourite directors and I had loved “Red Road”…
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“I, Daniel Blake”: Red Ken Strikes Again with Kitchen-Sink Drama Brimming with Didactic Tediousness
Technically, Red Ken is an adjective reserved for London’s ex mayor and socialist extraordinaire Ken Livingstone, but nothing stops one from applying it to this most leftist of British film-makers, Ken Loach, who for some mysterious reason…
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