The sequel to 2015's hit Kingsman: The Secret Service won't make you feel the urgent need to take a shower and/or throw up, as the original probably did. Believe it
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Mike White's father-and-son college-trip comedy-drama Brad's Status is legitimately more frightening than anything in It. Quite aside from the fact that real life is
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We don't actually see that many books in Ex Libris, Frederick Wiseman's massive new film about the New York Public Library. People think that [libraries are] just st
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Ashley Nicole Black is an L.A. native who's living the dream as a writer for Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on TBS. Since the show began, Bee's commitment to advanci
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Over the phone from his Los Angeles office, David Lynch tells me, It was all Harry Dean. I'd do anything for Harry Dean.The visionary director is referring to taking
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Writer-director Dee Rees is breaking all the rules with her third feature, Mudbound. In film school, they tell you, No voiceovers, yet this film about two WWII and p
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Filmmaking is not a poor man's game. Even as digital cameras get cheaper, making a festival-worthy film still requires dough to get it off the ground, which means th
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First with sympathy and then with a rushed, understandable helplessness, Peter Nicks' cop doc The Force examines the challenges of making significant changes inside
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L.A. Weekly film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival.Dictators are a certain kind of selfish, insecure insanity made
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Hollywood's problem with women is so dire that last year the federal government began investigating gender bias in film and television. L.A. Weekly's coverag
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Top of the Lake: China Girl airs on SundanceTV Jane Campion's initial plan for Top of the Lake, her SundanceTV drama about sexual violence in a rural New Zealand tow
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First They Killed My Father premieres on Netflix on Sept. 15 It would have been easy for Angelina Jolie's adaptation of Cambodian genocide survivor Loung Ung's 2000
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