Required Reading: Sleeper Summer Movies and The Japanese ‘Sideways’

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“15 Under-the-Radar Movies to Keep Summer 2014 Interesting” – Team HitFix offers up a list of films that should prick the ears of anyone dreading more superheroes on screen. Now you just have to hope that these movies will be coming to a theater anywhere near you. If only there were a system for getting them right into your house…

“The curious case of the Japanese remake of Sideways” – David Ehrlich at The Dissolve gets weird with some shrink-wrapped squid to pin down an artifact that leaves everything the same except the people involved. It’s maybe the closest thing to science the popular arts will ever have, and right now someone in France is wondering what Sideways would look like with French people in it.

Scott Beggs: Movie stuff at VanityFair, Thrillist, IndieWire, Film School Rejects, and The Broken Projector Podcast@brokenprojector | Writing short stories at Adventitious.