With movie-history viewing choices spawning like mold in a damp room, we can easily see the things we didn't even know we'd never seen. For me that includes
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Consider, before you consider anything else about the sequel to Trainspotting, that the director of both films is an artist whose signal trait had been a seeming rep
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Pop quiz: What comic-book adaptation centers on a white man orphaned by tragedy but blessed with great wealth who travels to an Asian country, only to return to Amer
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Let's say you had to make up a list of historical moments that might serve as grand backdrops for sweeping, old-fashioned, Hollywood-style romantic dramas. How high
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Every Western that gets made feels as if it could be the last one, and yet the genre refuses to ride off into the sunset. Martin Koolhoven's Brimstone doesn'
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In 1976's The Devil Finds Work, James Baldwin makes a crucial verb distinction when discussing the screen legends, like Bette Davis, with whom he was transfixed (som
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Almost no one ever asks young women what they desire ? in movies or reality. Feminine cravings are still seen as a dire threat, a grand disturbance to the power stru
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For Evgeny Afineevsky, history is written by rebels, whether they are victorious or not. His unsparing and unforgiving documentary Cries From Syria puts the six-year
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Science fiction has gotten so high and mighty on TV that it now can be easy to admire but hard to love. Westworld and Mr. Robot may win Emmys and prompt think pieces
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For a movie in which a major character's death is discovered when a giant lizard-monster vomits out his skull, Kong: Skull Island is a surprisingly breezy affair. I
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It's March! Time to celebrate spring by staying inside and watching more TV! National Treasure (Hulu), March 1Originally a U.K. Channel 4 miniseries, this is a four-
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Movie actors intend no less than to live forever, a goal that seems likely for the ever-likable, endlessly surprising Bill Paxton, who died last weekend at age 61 f
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