Is it too much to ask that all these holiday-themed rom-coms ? Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve and now Mother's Day?? one day merge with the Halloween?mo
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Like The Imitation Game, The Man Who Knew Infinity is a Great Man biopic about a man most viewers probably have never heard of. Srinivasa Ramanujan was a brilliant,
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If you thought the billionaire played by Steve Carell in Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher was eerie, please allow me to introduce you to the real John du Pont. A dangero
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According to the multitude of 20-somethings, 30-somethings and 40-somethings preparing to attend this weekend's sixth annual TCM Classic Film Festival, it's
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Fairy tales were meant to be oral stories. Translating the tangents of old women in far-flung villages (whose chips on their shoulders about, say, their brother's fa
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Very rarely does anyone want to see a movie in a theater surrounded by a bunch of young children ? even people with kids ? but if there's one place where you won't m
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The lure of everything Cuba is strong. It's in the news, on top of everyone's travel list and in our movie theaters. But the recent films about Cuba aren't expor
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Hannah Arendt is unlikely to be a social media star. Newly relevant 40 years after her death, the German-born philosopher's work is distinctly ill-suited to contempo
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Nearly every Alien movie begins the same way: in the vast loneliness of space, in a ship that's running on its own. In the first film, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979), t
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The second season of Amazon's Catastrophe might do for the #TGIF-style family sitcom of the late '80s and '90s what the first did for the ailing rom-com: open-mo
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In '81 he accessorized his trench coat with high heels and bikini briefs. In '84 that coat got dandified, high-collared and famously purple, Edwardian forma
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Butch female characters have been too few and far between in film history. In most cases, you'll find them in so-called gay and lesbian? genres, as though a characte
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