Score one for going home again. After misfiring with Begin Again, a film that asked us to worry over a disillusioned A&R man's efforts to coax a folk-pop album o
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The effortless charisma of Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer, the headliners of the first two Barbershop movies (released in 2002 and 2004), helped keep those over
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Here's about as convincing an argument as I can imagine for the existence of the modern Hollywood blockbuster. Disney and Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book reinv
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What do you get when you make a superhero movie with a male lead but keep your female audience at the forefront in your decision-making? Apparently a box office hit
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Hardcore Henry screened as a midnight movie at last September's Toronto Film Festival, and was so ecstatically received that a distributor bidding war ensued. Six mo
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Colonia is not a thriller, so let's get that out of the way. It's a love story that also happens to be set in one of the most viscerally horrifying cult prisons
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Stately, earthy, graphic, riveting: Gabriel Mascaro's Neon Bull is one of those art-house studies that plops the camera down someplace far from us and, in exquis
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John Carpenter is happy that he's talking music. I've done 40 years of movie interviews, he says by phone, so I don't need anymore.With Carpenter, thoug
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Here's a question faced by the creators of almost every superhero adaptation: How do you pull this off without copying Frank Miller's Batman? Too many modern sup
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The 13th annual True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri is not a particularly huge festival ? held over four days, it screens around 40 features ? but its pro
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New Zealand's Cliff Curtis has been stealing scenes for years now, so it's nice to see him playing a bona fide lead in the new chess drama The Dark Horse. Based on t
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In Karyn Kusama's newest feature film, The Invitation, a group of old friends gathers in a secluded house in the Hollywood Hills, reuniting after two years of r
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