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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
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What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary

Consider this your homework before You Can See Everything arrives October 16.

By Lanny Fuller
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Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act

Inside FRET12, the Chicago shop turning rock ’n’ roll culture into clothes, art, live sessions, beer, and more.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Our Go-to Albums for Hosting

7 albums that set the mood so you can worry about the food and whether you have enough ice.

By Cool Material
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A Giant Collection of Hollywood Props is Going Up for Auction

On September 26, movie lovers are going to have a rare chance to snap up 600 different authentic props from some of the world's favorite movies. There are pieces from Alien, Tron, Indiana Jones, The Martian, and Guardians of the Galaxy, among many, many others. Just be prepared to drop…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The 10 Best Titles Coming to Netflix This Month

This September on Netflix is a whole different ball game from what subscribers are used to. For the first time since we started putting out this monthly series, there are so many good releases and debuts we honestly didn’t know where to begin. To give you an idea, here are…

By Maxwell Barna
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The 9 Best Titles Coming to Amazon Prime This Month

After months of covering Amazon Prime Streaming’s new releases, we think we’ve finally figured out their angle. Every month, the team at Amazon puts together a pretty massive list of some rather intriguing titles that include a couple blockbuster hits, some solid original content, and a bunch of obscure documentaries,…

By Maxwell Barna
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The Best War Movies Ever Made

While we have no problem agreeing that Bogey and Bergman's performances in Casablanca are some of the best ever recorded on film, the fact that their movie takes place during wartime does not make it a war film. To us, for it to be a war movie, there are certain…

By Cooper Fleishman
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‘Last Flag Flying’ Trailer

There have been movies set during the War on Terror before, sure, but not many of them had the benefit of time between the start of the conflict and when the story takes place. Last Flag Flying is one of the first to have nearly decade and a half to reflect…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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