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The Dark Tower review: 90 minutes you’ll never get back

August 2, 2025 by thestakemag 4 Comments

Junk.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Stephen King, The Dark Tower

The 5 Best Pop Culture Moments of 2014 (Chris Ervasti version)

December 31, 2024 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

@midnight, Michael Sam, and Country Western.

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: @midnight, Chris Ervasti, Fargo Allison Tolman, Laverne Cox, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Sam, NFL, Orange is the New Black, Sturgill Simpson, True Detective

The Stake Podcast Episode 15: 2014 Year in Review

December 10, 2024 by Christopher ZF 1 Comment

Navigating the difficult stories, and celebrating the biggest surprises of 2014

Filed Under: Stake Podcast Tagged With: 2014, Amazon, Ben Affleck, Bill Cosby, BlackLivesMatter, Christopher Nolan, DC, Eric Garner, Ferguson, Guardians of the Galaxy, Late Night, Marvel, Matthew McConaughey, movies, Netflix, Rolling Stone, She Makes Comics, Stephen Colbert, Zack Snyder

Interstellar, quantum physics and Christopher Nolan’s soft science

November 6, 2025 by thestakemag 1 Comment

communicating the holy mysteries of quantum physics to the unwashed masses

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Christopher Nolan, Forest Lewis, Interstellar, Jessica Chastain, Matthew McConaughey

A note on the casting of Vince Vaughn in True Detective Season 2

September 25, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

the king of frat-boy comedy comes to hard-boiled noir

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: Colin Farrell, HBO, Justin Lin, Matthew McConaughey, True Detective, Vince Vaughn

What would True Detective’s Rust Cohle have thought of Matthew McConaughey’s Oscar speech?

March 3, 2025 by Andrew DeYoung 1 Comment

Not much, I expect.

Filed Under: Movies, TV Tagged With: Matthew McConaughey, Oscars, Rust Cohle, True Detective

Recapping the Oscars: What I liked and Didn’t Like

March 3, 2025 by Christopher ZF 1 Comment

5 things I really liked, and 5 things I decidedly disliked.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: 12 Years a Slave, Academy Awards, Alfonso Cuaron, Cate Blanchett, Ellen DeGeneres, Gravity, Matthew McConaughey, movies, Oscars

True Detective’s Shakespearean echoes

February 10, 2025 by Andrew DeYoung 2 Comments

True Detective doesn’t care whodunit. It’s more interested in “Who am I?”

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: Hamlet, Matthew McConaughey, True Detective, Woody Harrelson

List: 10 Oscar Ceremony Predictions

December 9, 2024 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

The Awards Show coverage continue, with a list of occurrences that will take place at the Ceremony-from Presenters to Predictions.

Filed Under: Movies, TV Tagged With: Academy Awards, Anchorman, Ellen DeGeneres, List, Matthew McConaughey, movies, Oscars, Will Ferrell

Dazed and Confused turns 20

September 20, 2025 by Christopher ZF 12 Comments

Twenty years later, Dazed and Confused has aged into the best hangout film ever made.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: 1970s, Ben Affleck, Dazed and Confused, high-school, Matthew McConaughey, Richard Linklater

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