Long before it face-plants entirely, about halfway through, Phillip Noyce's The Desperate Hour is already kneecapped with cliches. From the first shots of Naomi Watt
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Joe Wright's Cyrano , is not the first musical version of the old Rostand chestnut: Wikipedia lists six different musicalizations in the past half-century?including
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Valentine's Day landing on a Monday after the Superbowl this year was a blessing to many. Romantic love is a glorious thing, and when you don't have it, being remind
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a very strange movie. Of course, it's a horror film so wacky and sinister things are expected. Yet this sequel is strange in a different s
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Whether you decide the new horror indie A Banquet is in fact a horror film depends upon how wide your net is cast. Genre creates certain expectations, and runs along
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For a movie with such a farfetched premise, I Want You Back is authentically charming and strangely relatable. Unlike most romantic comedies, which feature two ludic
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Jennifer Lopez has been steadily building one of the most interesting careers around, from blockbusters (Hustlers) to independent films, music videos to Instagram st
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The nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday and as usual, social and entertainment media has something to say about it, with call-outs for
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Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World might be wholly concerned with Julie, an ostensibly carefree soul living in Oslo, Norway, but this disarming coming-of-
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Now, this is a story all about howMy life got flipped, turned upside downAnd I'd like to take a minuteJust sit right thereI'll tell you how I became the prince of a
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As the 10th season of Canada's Letterkenny catches us all up on the latest rural hijinx of the hicks, the jocks and the skids, the crew behind the popular comedy als
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Among other things, the new Georgian film Brighton 4th might just be the best foreign film ever made about Brooklyn. But it feels right at home, because just as Amer
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