It may not have been Houdini who said it, but what the hell, Peter Bogdanovich says, in the voice of the Official Narrator, early in his joyous The Great Buster: A C
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Sunday, Oct. 21Getting into the Halloween spirit, UCLA and the Hammer Museum screen a 35mm print of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, in which Bud and Lou confr
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Tomorrow something will happen to make things feel different, a character declares early in the incisive domestic drama Wildlife, the directorial debut of actor Paul
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There are two opposing films running simultaneously in David Gordon Green's Halloween, a reboot/sequel of an endlessly rebooted/sequelized series. One, led by Jamie
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The difference between a house and a home, of course, is the life within it. In their searching, playful documentary 306 Hollywood, sister-brother filmmakers Elan a
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The real Lee Israel, the celebrity profiler turned forger who died in 2014, was a more boastful figure than the sad-sack recluse Melissa McCarthy plays in Marielle
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I'll scoop you up at 6 o'clock. Be ready!??I had scored tickets for LeBron James' first official game on the Lakers' home court a few Sundays ago and I
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Largely plotless, slice-of-life dramas often get described as quiet, yet Mid90s, the largely plotless, slice-of-life drama from Jonah Hill (his first film as writer
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The moon is both a memory and a dream-quest in First Man, Damien Chazelle's epic about the life of Neil Armstrong. A tense, terse drama that plunges us headlong and
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Friday, Oct. 12John C. Reilly will make a special appearance at LACMA following a screening of his newest film, The Sisters Brothers. A gritty Western-comedy (by the
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There's no denying this welcome truth about Drew Goddard's puzzle-box ensemble thriller/curio Bad Times at the El Royale: It's the rare contemporary studio release
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Just out of high school in Marin County and free to attend any of the six colleges that have accepted him, Nic Sheff (Timoth?e Chalamet) is handsome, whip-smart and
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