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It's the scariest time of the year, Election Season, and THE APPRENTICE is a suitably chilling tale of a young schmuck's conversion to evil by a demonic power.

ALSO, DISCLAIMER on AppleTV+ is a sleek, sexy prestige drama that brings maximum big-screen cred (Alfonso Cuaron, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, etc.) to your living room.

FilmWatch Weekly: Donald Trump meets Roy Cohn in ‘The Apprentice,’ Cate Blanchett locks horns with Kevin Kline in ‘Disclaimer,’ and more This week's highlights include Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump, a new TV series from Alfonso Cuarón, plus more Halloweeny horror flicks than you can shake a broomstick at.

THE GREAT DIVIDE, a Portland-made, darkly comic feature, has its world premiere next week at the McMenamins Kennedy School. I spoke with Sarah Brody Webb and John Skipp about the unique process involved in making it. The Great Divide Movie - 2024.

‘The Great Divide’: Director and co-star of Portland-made feature discuss its unique origins A new dark comedy film featuring an ensemble cast of students from a Portland theater class premieres October 8th at the McMenamins Kennedy School Theater.

MEGALOPOLIS is sort of like if SOUTHLAND TALES was directed by an octogenarian. (To be clear, I like SOUTHLAND TALES!) More at the link:

FilmWatch Weekly: ‘Megalopolis,’ ‘Lee,’ Latin American Film Fest, and much more Francis Ford Coppola's first studio film in more than two decades is an underdeveloped vanity project, albeit an entertaining and visually splendid one.