The musician biopic might be stale and stupid as a genre, but it will endure. Each new one offers the possibility of the wondrous thing that made Hollywood into Holl
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Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a spiritual sequel? to his 1993 high school stoner classic Dazed and Confused, but in some key ways
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Knight of Cups, the latest film by Terrence Malick, has been described by some as a fans-only proposition. As an ardent devotee of the notoriously media-shy filmmak
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Ask weary WWE viewers to identify why the professional wrestling titan's creative direction has gone so stagnant and you'll hear one answer time and again: lack of c
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Have you ever considered the fact that, in 1951, Hank Williams actually wrote Hey Good Lookin'? That, for the first 175 years years of American history, those wo
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Thunderous, ponderous and occasionally exciting, Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opens with one of those grim proclamations that the creators of mod
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The joke was on me when I first saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding back in 2002: I watched the film at a press screening that also happened to be attended by a large group
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Prestige cable flatters us about the past. It lets us vacation in the backwardness of previous generations, usually while throwing some empathetic side-eye. Gape at
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The Chet Baker portrayed by Ethan Hawke in Robert Budreau's misty biopic Born to Be Blue is midway between beauty and ruin. Behind him are the 1950s, when his easy v
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It's an irresistibly warm weekday in late January, and Jay and Mark Duplass are in their office at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood preparing to write the thir
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The Big Chill's status as a vaunted classic is further proof that baby boomers just might be the worst, and the fact that Burning Bodhi lifts its premise wholesale f
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