On-Gaku is the lo-fi, arthouse rocker comedy we didn’t know we needed. An unconventional animated film coming out of Japan in 2019, On-Gaku (translates to “our sound”) follows a group of bored delinquent teens who come together to play music and discover the joy of creating something of their own. It was based on a manga created by Hiroyuki Ôhashi.
Director Kenji Iwaisawa took seven years to make On-Gaku, his first feature film, and the scrappy passion for filmmaking and classic rock is contagious.
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Spike Lee directed and stared in this cult classic comedy set at a Historically Black University in the South. Lee handles tense issues like classism, colorism, political activism, and hair texture bias with musical numbers in this fun, sometimes serious, always engaging comedy.
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One of the best romcoms of all time, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s early aughts classic is a love story, a coming of age tale, and a sports film all in one. Two prodigious basketball players meet, fall in love, and take wildly different paths through the world of high school, college, and professional basketball.
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Love is the only inspiration.
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Wes Anderson’s breakout film is a coming of age story set at a private school in Texas, where an oddball teen is enraged to learn his too-old-for him teacher crush and mentoring venture capitalist friend are romantically involved.
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Bill Murray plays a wayward ship captain and documentary maker who rallies his crew, a pregnant journalist, and his fabulous estranged wife to exact revenge on a mythical shark while he grapples with the presence of a man who may or not be his son.
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Wes Anderson’s journalism film centers on a magazine staff in a fictional French city. Anderson applies his visually playful and punchy style to a series of vignettes that include his usual cast of favorites like Bill Murray and Owen Wilson, with some new faces including Timothée Chalamet and Elisabeth Moss.
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Miranda July’s new offbeat family drama stars Evan Rachel Wood as the child of criminal parents whose world is turned upside down by a newly recruited partner in crime (Gina Rodriguez). A critically acclaimed Sundance choice, this film’s got heart and humor.
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Hell, any of them could have done it.
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This is a weird and wonderful rom-com starring Cher, a pragmatic young widow, and Nicolas Cage, a hot-tempered baker with a wooden hand. There’s a makeover, Nic Cage yelling a lot, a killer scene at the Met… you just have to come see it.
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