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Everybody Wants A Free Richard Linklater Movie, And So Do You

Richard Linklater’s new movie, Everybody Wants Some!!, is in theatres today and it is very good. Need further encouragement? Read my interview with him in this week’s issue!

As you may have heard, Everybody Wants Some!! has a lot in common with Linklater’s 1993 hangout picture Dazed And Confused. Both movies are period pieces both follow horny young people through a small window of time, and both movies are content to just sit and watch people behave for long stretches. They’re anthropological studies disguised as ensemble comedies, really.

Anyway, if all of this has left you thinking, “Boy, I really need to catch up to Dazed And Confused again,” you’re in luck: it’s this month’s NOW Free Flick Mondays feature, and I’ll be introducing it at The Royal Monday night !

You know the drill, right? Doors open at 6:30 pm, show starts at 7:30 pm. The first 100 guests get free popcorn, and there will be other stuff happening too. Plus, I’ll be there to introduce it and make jokes about how Matthew McConaughey decidedly did not stay the same age. Join us, won’t you? It’ll be fun.

And then, once the haze has worn off, you can tackle this month’s fairly grim Doc Soup premiere, Jim: The James Foley Story.

Brian Oakes’s film about his childhood friend is a moving, personal work, reconstructing the life of an ordinary kid who grew up to become a globetrotting journalist – only to be kidnapped by Syrian militants in 2012.

Two years later, Foley was executed in one of the first pieces of ISIS propaganda to go global. Oakes doesn’t focus on his death as much as the events leading up to it, using interviews with other hostages to show us what Foley experienced in his two years as a prisoner. This isn’t a newsmagazine piece, but a documentary about a life cut short that’s unapologetically (and justifiably) angry about that fact.

As with all Doc Soup screenings, the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema will screen it twice on Wednesday (April 6) at 6:30 pm and 9:15 pm, with a repeat on Thursday (April 7) at 6:45 pm. Oakes will be present to introduce the film and for post-screening Q&As advance tickets are $16 ($12 for Bloor members) and can be purchased here.

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