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Five things with Chris Vognar: Venice Film Festival, Narcos, Foals and more

1. The Venice Film Festival - The fall movie season gets underway Wednesday in Italy. I will be there. This makes me happy.

2. Bad Kid  - David Crabb's memoir about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking.

3. Narcos - The Netflix series about the rise and fall of Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar boasts sturdy storytelling chops, killer performances and touches of GoodFellas and The Wire.

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4. Foals, What Went Down -  The art rockers from Oxford continue to evolve and reach new levels of dynamism with their latest album.

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5.  Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine - Whet your appetite for the big Jobs biopic with Alex Gibney's gloves-off documentary, which the Jobs camp isn't particularly happy with. It opens Friday at the Texas Theatre.

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