Darren Bousman doesn't look like the type of guy who's been the subject of an FBI investigation into Los Angeles cults.The director of Saw II through IV, Repo! The G
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Aisholpan Nurgaiv has never met the eagle she's posing with ? borrowed from a local animal wrangler ? on a balcony at the London Hotel in West Hollywood. In 90-degre
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Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge is a film at war with itself. Which makes perfect sense, because it's about a man at war with himself, and I'm pretty sure it was also mad
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With films like Take Shelter, Mud and even this spring's somewhat uneven Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols has steadily built a filmography of terse beauty. With Lo
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Netflix's The Crown, a drama series about the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, is the kind of sumptuous but tasteful British royals porn you'd expect from Ye Ol
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Edward Bunker's novel Dog Eat Dog (1996) kicks off with a disgusting sequence in which a two-bit criminal named Gerald Mad Dog? McCain ? caught up in a cocaine binge
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Dog Eat Dog is like nothing Paul Schrader has ever done before. The director of films as diverse as American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Affliction and
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Nancy Buirski's By Sidney Lumet opens with the filmmaker reflecting on his witnessing, as a young man, the rape of an underage girl by a group of soldiers on a train
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Are we really in our generation going to allow the biggest mammal on earth to disappear?? asks a conservationist late in Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's prop
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The wooden troll figures that Thomas Dam began carving and selling in the 1950s had a great deal of folklore behind them but no cast of fixed characters. Though the
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I'm not afraid to admit that I get a kick out of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon thrillers. Yes, they're indifferently plotted and predictably written. But I'm a suck
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A wall of white and black hats. Terrifying darkness. A woman staggering through a medical facility with her guts ripped open. And always, in the background: the play
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