Don't ever say that nothing good comes to the theaters here in Los Angeles, because Film Independent's L.A. Film Festival is about to bring a slew of the be
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It's summer! Time to stay inside and watch TV! Duh!I'm Dying Up Here (Showtime), June 4 Peak TV giveth, and Peak TV taketh away. And sometimes Peak TV confuses the s
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For some reason, I can't bring myself to hate Jim Brockmire. Played by comedian Hank Azaria, best known for his voice work on The Simpsons, Brockmire wears a perpetu
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Newly restored, James Ivory's elegant and passionate 1987 film, Maurice, adapted from the posthumously published novel by E.M. Forster, is being rereleased. Last yea
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There will always be, it's become clear, one more Winston Churchill story to tell: one more slant on a weekend, a summer, a year in the life of the 20th century's mo
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Perhaps Wonder Woman's greatest superpower is enduring for the past 75 years as a wildly unstable signifier. Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot in the t
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One benefit of China's rise as a global film power has been that bigger budgets and larger audiences are now devoted to productions of stories from the country's exp
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In 2015, House of Cards' fourth season had President Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) confessing a murder to his secretary of state, ICO (the series' fictional ISIS)
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Watching movies for a living is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it, and our film critics are up to the task. While they see plenty of stellar movies, they
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Imagine a remake of Cape Fear shot like Kubrick's The Shining, with Max Cady recast as a child, and you'll have some idea of the strangeness of Yorgos Lanthimos' The
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English 101 instructors sometimes combat plagiarism by having students read a piece and then write a summary from memory, in their own words. Most of the time, the r
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Baywatch kinda baffled me. This R-rated comedy adaptation of the cheesy but sincere beach-set action series ? which somehow became a worldwide phenomenon in the 1990
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