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From the rock band Queen's early days through its Live Aid performance, director Bryan Singer's BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY follow the group's rise through the story of its lead singer Freddie Mercury, played by Rami Malek.

Also, Melissa McCarthy is a struggling writer who finds her work more in demand when creating and selling fake celebrity correspondence as the real thing to memorabilia dealers in director Marielle Heller's CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

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BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY clips courtesy Twentieth Century Fox

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? clip courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded November 11, 2018.

Michael Myers breaks free and seeks to terrorize Haddonfield, Illinois again forty years later, but Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode is ready and waiting to get her vengeance in co-writer/director David Gordon Green's HALLOWEEN, a sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer finds the appeal in Hirokazu Kore-eda's crime drama THE THIRD MURDER (SANDOME NO SATSUJIN). Paul Markoff enjoys the humor and camaraderie among three nerdy friends living in a tough neighborhood getting mixed up in things they shouldn't in Rick Famuyiwa's DOPE.

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HALLOWEEN clip courtesy Universal Pictures

DOPE clip courtesy Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded November 11, 2018.

Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Cynthia Erivo, and Dakota Johnson are strangers with secrets whose paths cross at the declining, border-straddling motel where they're staying in writer-director Drew Goddard's BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE.

Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss how, or if, one should separate the art from the artist when someone involved with a film is alleged or convicted of wrongdoing.

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BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded October 21, 2018.

Director Damien Chazelle's FIRST MAN tracks the space race via the work and home life of Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer admires Frederick Wiseman's small town documentary MONROVIA, INDIANA, and Paul Markoff appreciates the humor and scares in Rob Letterman's GOOSEBUMPS.

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FIRST MAN clips courtesy Universal Pictures

MONROVIA, INDIANA clip courtesy Zipporah Films

GOOSEBUMPS clip courtesy Columbia Pictures

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded October 21, 2018.

In the latest version of A STAR IS BORN, Bradley Cooper directs, co-writes, and stars as successful but self-destructive musician Jackson Maine, who finds love and an ascendant talent in Lady Gaga's Ally.

Also, Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti are a couple in their forties feeling pressure and disappointment in pursuing fertility treatments and other options to have a child in writer-director Tamara Jenkins' comedic drama PRIVATE LIFE.

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A STAR IS BORN clips courtesy Warner Bros.

PRIVATE LIFE clip courtesy Netflix

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded October 21, 2018.

Jeffrey Wright goes into the Alaskan wilderness to hunt wolves suspected of killing children in director Jeremy Saulnier's HOLD THE DARK.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer appreciates the action, humor, and satire in John Carpenter's THEY LIVE and picks BISBEE '17, AMÉRICA, and HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING as must-see films at the Wexner Center for the Arts' Unorthodocs. 2018 film festival. Paul Markoff savors the lurid thrills of David Fincher's GONE GIRL.

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HOLD THE DARK clip courtesy Netflix

THEY LIVE clip courtesy Universal Pictures

GONE GIRL clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded September 29, 2018.

A good deed that Anna Kendrick performs for Blake Lively eventually leads to investigating her mysterious and glamorous friend's disappearance in Paul Feig's comedic thriller A SIMPLE FAVOR.

Also, Ben Mendelsohn finds that a divorce and early retirement haven't made him happier in writer-director Nicole Holofcener's THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS.

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A SIMPLE FAVOR clip courtesy Lionsgate

THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS clip courtesy Netflix

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded September 29, 2018.

Boyd Holbrook leads a group of misfits, including ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biologist, to retrieve some alien technology before the government and hunter aliens find it in director and co-writer Shane Black's THE PREDATOR.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer is dazzled by the bold visuals and sound design of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's crime film LET THE CORPSES TAN (LAISSEZ BRONZER LES CADAVRES). Paul Markoff chooses Ramin Bahrani's drama 99 HOMES with Andrew Garfield assisting Michael Shannon in a shady real estate business.

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THE PREDATOR clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox

99 HOMES clip courtesy Broad Green Pictures

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded September 29, 2018.

John Cho plays a desperate father who searches his missing teenage daughter's computer and social media for clues to her whereabouts in director and co-writer Aneesh Chaganty's thriller SEARCHING.

Also, Lana Condor is a high school junior whose secret love letters are unknowingly sent to onetime objects of her affection and lead to a fake relationship of convenience with Noah Centineo in director Susan Johnson's TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE, an adaptation of Jenny Han's young adult novel.

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SEARCHING clip courtesy Screen Gems

TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE clip courtesy Netflix

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded September 1, 2018.

Two Colorado Springs police officers infiltrate a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in director Spike Lee's BLACKKKLANSMAN. John David Washington is the African-American cop developing close relationships over the phone with Klan members, and Adam Driver is the white, Jewish colleague who stands in for him at face-to-face meetings.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer praises Ingmar Bergman's WINTER LIGHT (NATTVARDSGÄSTERNA), a notable inspiration for Paul Schrader's FIRST REFORMED. Paul Markoff appreciates Alexander Payne's NEBRASKA with Bruce Dern and Will Forte.

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BLACKKKLANSMAN clip courtesy Focus Features

NEBRASKA clip courtesy Paramount Vantage

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded August 18, 2018.