From the hills of San Francisco to the streets of Los Angeles, the Golden State plays a central character in many films throughout cinematic history. Sure, the film
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The beginning marks the beginning of the end: A middle-aged man rouses from sleep, about to face another day of accosting and insulting strangers. He hates people bu
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Since every cell of you dies and sloughs away so many times in your life, can you be said to be the same you at 65 that you were at 20? Such questions power this fru
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To understand how Ritesh Batra's The Sense of an Ending might disappoint you if you've read the suspenseful, tear-jerking Julian Barnes novel on which it's based, yo
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Somehow, MTV2, the channel that was launched 21 years ago to show all the music videos MTV wasn't, has essentially turned into BET ? or TV One or Centric or whatever
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The Most Hated Woman in America premieres March 24 on NetflixThe antagonistic atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair relished it when Life magazine called her The Most Ha
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Laura Dern doesn't want to draw attention to herself. She lowers her voice as she settles into a red-and-white vinyl booth at Jones Hollywood, where only a few
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There's more of a narrative in Song to Song than in Terrence Malick's last two films, but that may not, at first, seem like a good thing. Pin Malick's work down thes
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If civilization were to end tomorrow ? and who the hell knows, it just might ? we could learn a lot about building the next one from the films of Hirokazu Kore-eda.
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Alice Lowe's baby Della whacks two knives on the table as Lowe describes for me the nightmare she had before she knew she was pregnant: A horde of shadow selves in n
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Even if it were not for the fact that Mean Dreams has become Bill Paxton's penultimate picture, Nathan Morlando's thriller would be worth recommending entire
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It's the take as old as time. Yes, Beauty and the Beast's love story can be read as a tale of abuse and brainwashing, of a woman imprisoned by a tyrant until she sta
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