Benghazi is a hashtag battle-cry, a call to arms that many Americans don't understand. Unlike the simplicity of Remember the Alamo!? a bleat of Benghazi!? still
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Movie theaters should be offering a night out, not just a bigger screen, says Cinefamily co-founder and executive creative director Hadrian Belove. It's funny,
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Alan Rickman has died at the age of 69. To Americans of a certain generation, he'll always be Hans Gruber from Die Hard; to those of a slightly fresher vintage,
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Just days after the passing of David Bowie, the world woke up to the sad news that another British legend had succumbed to cancer at the age of 69. Actor Alan Rickma
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MTV's The Shannara Chronicles is gorgeous and lunkheaded, gory and hilarious, sometimes awful and sometimes full of awe. It's also quite welcome: Just as Ter
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Critics rarely receive love from filmmakers. Last year's Best Picture Oscar winner, Birdman, featured a vengeful harpy of a theater reviewer (played by Lindsay Dunc
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Acropolis Cinema doesn't have an address, but it does have a plan. The roving screening series, which launches tonight with the Los Angeles premiere of Raya Martin a
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The L.A. Weekly has lost two of its exceptional journalists to exciting new gigs: managing editor Jill Stewart to?the Coalition to Preserve L.A., where she will be c
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A sure-bet time-waster with a clutch of big laughs? A 100-minute brief on Hollywood's lack of imagination? Grist for future essays about how quickly the idea of
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To care about the Oscars is to be continually disappointed. Low-key films unexpectedly attain presumedfront-runner status by sweeping the critics' awards, only to f
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If you buy into reductive ideas about generations, The Benefactor ? Andrew Renzi's creepy, stately drama of guilt and charity ? gains much suggestive resonance.
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Millions of gluttons for punishment tuned in to hate-watch the Golden Globes last night and walked away with plenty of fodder for snarky tweets. Ricky Gervais, whose
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