To understand what Absolutely Fabulous (first a TV show and now a movie) means to Brits, you'd have to go back to the TV premiere in 1992. Margaret Thatcher had had
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In the Red Records kicked off the second night of its 25th-anniversary celebration Friday night, taking over both the Echo and the Echoplex with a jam-packed lineup
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Star Trek Beyond might be the Star Trekkiest film of the new, J.J. Abramsified Trek era. That is to say, it's the one that feels the most like a turbo-loaded episode
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A while back I cracked a dumb joke about all our presidential candidates being corrupt. My wife hit back with this: You're a JibJab! She referred, of course, to
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In the world of Difficult People, the cutting comedy returning this week to Hulu, the game is rigged against Julie (Julie Klausner) and Billy (Billy Eichner), but pe
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Beginning 40 miles northeast of Hollywood, the high-desert regions of eastern California are home to a different sort of cinematic wonderland, one that has left its
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The futuristic dystopia of the arty sci-fi romance Equals will be familiar to anyone who's seen the likes of Gattaca, The Island or THX 1138. It's a cool, rational,
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Bob Mazur, in his best-selling memoir, sounds like any of us when we shift careers, writing that he wanted something that kept my interest, that didn't box me into t
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Here's a story you might have missed a few weeks back, what with the country collapsing. In late June, at Dallas' Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, 30
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It's no secret that some documentary films are either partly or largely staged. Think of Errol Morris's re-enactments; think of the fake archival footage in Sarah Po
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Is it possible to sustain a feature in a single interior location with the premise that three outlaws on the run may or may not rape the three women of the house, tw
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Few of us live our lives in widescreen. Instead, the frames in which our days play out tend to be tight and personal, the vistas only occasional. We see what we need
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