Since it's about a boy and a horse, Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete might at first lull you into a sort of audience complacency. The boy's broke, his dad's laid up and
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Friday, April 13Belle de Jour, Luis Bu?uel's taboo-busting international hit about an unsatisfied housewife who moonlights as a high-class prostitute, has had a
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Warwick Thornton's Aussie Western Sweet Country is a lyrical meditation on a significant but subtle turning point in his country's history: the moment where some wh
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Tyler Perry's Acrimony used to be called She's Living My Life, but it may as well have been called Diary of a Mad Black Woman. In fact, many of Perry's earlier film
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Yes, it's true: Al Pacino was super hot in the mid-1970s, after the Godfather movies, Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon, and he was offered the role of Han Solo in S
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What is capitalism?? a voice asks at the start of Jed Rothstein's alarming The China Hustle. The question is posed as we're shown ominous footage of Wall Street skys
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Friday, March 30One Day Pina Asked... is Chantal Akerman's lush, munificent portrait of legendary choreographer Pina Bausch and her German-based dance company.
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The first time Burt Reynolds walked onscreen with a cane was all the way back in 1989, in Bill Forsyth's elegiac burglar buddy comedy, Breaking In. Reynolds, then 5
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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, has opened her very own ghoulishly delightful Bootique at Sweet! Hollywood at Hollywood & Highland. The pop-up retail shop features eth
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At the climax of The Muppets Take Manhattan, that redoubtable producer Kermit the Frog realizes at last what his Broadway show has been missing right up to the nigh
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Saturday, March 24The Art Deco Society of Los Angeles presents a 35mm screening of The Three Musketeers, featuring Douglas Fairbanks at his swashbuckling-est as d
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Steven Soderbergh petitioned the Directors Guild of America to let him make his new low-budget, high-concept stalker thriller Unsane under a pseudonym, and I can im
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