Fritz Bohm's directorial debut seeks entry into the canon of films about girls awakening to their own devastating powers upon their first menstruation cycle. Wildli
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The painfully dull horror movie Blumhouse's Truth or Dare bears the name of its production company, which in turn is named after producer Jason Blum, who's on a rol
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Shia LaBeouf makes art out of rage, which is somewhat fitting for an actor whose art has inspired irrational hatred. It's baffling that fanboys and internet shouter
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There are ludicrous constructions, say, a 30-foot wolf crossbred with spider, bat and bug DNA. And then there's Rampage's Dwayne The Rock Johnson as a misan
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Los Angeles and film noir go together like a dame and a gat. Perhaps that's why Noir City ? L.A.'s longest-running festival of classic crime cinema ? has en
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Hollywood hasn't known what to do with Jon Hamm since Mad Men, probably because Hollywood doesn't make many movies about grown-ups. That's especially true for grown
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Too few female role models get memorialized in the culture as rock stars. Enter Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, a documentary that resists retelling its subject's
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Carl Theodor Dreyer practically invented the cinematic art of crying with his Maria Falconettistarring 1928 study The Passion of Joan of Arc. Ninety years later, Fr
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It's Sound!? screams a briefly glimpsed newspaper headline flapping in the wind at the start of actor-director John Krasinski's marvelously tense, surprisingly mela
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One truth about American politics: Partisans tend not to face the full mendacity of their side's worst until there are no more elections left for those worst to win
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Friday, April 6Hollywood movie star and trailblazing director Ida Lupino was born 100 years ago. To celebrate her centennial, UCLA will present a series of double bi
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What does it take to make a great sci-fi B movie these days? One element that used to seem to guarantee one of these films might be of interest ? the appearance of
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