Nepotism is occasionally a positive, and not just for the direct beneficiary. Ridley Scott gave us Alien, with heroine Ripley and a memorable cast of ne'er-do-wells
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It's hard to watch White Girl without experiencing a creeping sense of anxiety. Loosely based on the adolescent life of writer-director Elizabeth Wood, the film foll
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Were we wrong to root for Kevin Smith?When he burst onto the scene in 1994, it was the most improbable of rags-to-riches movie narratives: bankrolling Clerks by sell
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You can be forgiven for thinking that the new show from Dan Harmon, creator of Community and Rick and Morty, might come off as niche. Available on the new comedy str
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Perry Anzilotti is a moderately successful actor. In the early '90s, immediately after earning his MFA from CalArts, Anzilotti enjoyed the stuff of many actors' visi
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This month marks 35 years since the launch of one of the most influential networks in television history: MTV. It was the rocket launch that signified the beginning
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The 4400 block of Sunset Boulevard sits at the nexus of three neighborhoods ??East Hollywood, Los Feliz and Silver Lake. Residents of each can now peer outside thei
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Just as there's a bizarro internet where Donald Trump is celebrated as a warm, loving, generous, successful businessman who really wants to earn a Purple Heart, I wo
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Robert De Niro ? the Raging Bull himself, now aged from boxer to trainer ? is introduced in Hands of Stone bathed in Madison Square Garden's overhead spotlights, mor
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The attempt to reconcile the personal with the political has been the great theme of Nanni Moretti's cinema, as it was for many of the legendary Italian directors b
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We should be tired of wondering why Scandinavians are so fascinated with runaway crime ? it's obviously because they have so little of it. Set in Chicago or Bang
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The sarcastic wag who first drawled the phrase as exciting as watching grass grow never intended it as a compliment. But have you ever actually watched grass grow? I
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