Seven years back, living in the Bay Area during California's convulsion over restaurants serving foie gras, I found myself occasionally uttering an apostasy. Of cou
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I've always felt that The Incredibles is among the most underrated of Pixar's classics. It received rave reviews, to be sure, when it hit screens in 2004, but doesn
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Director Brett Haley's new film Hearts Beat Loud is something of a Trojan horse. The first scenes give every indication that we're going to see a lackluster
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There's a moment in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom when Chris Pratt tells Bryce Dallas Howard, If I don't make it back, remember you're the one who made me come her
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Friday, June 8Until his untimely death at 54, Bill Gunn was a talent to be reckoned with. A celebrated playwright and screenwriter, he also directed three features,
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The poor souls populating Ari Aster's soul-shaking slow-horror film Hereditary slide, over the film's running time, ever closer to their inevitable fates, as though
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To celebrate Pride Month, Los Angeles public television station KCET is airing three documentaries that shine a light on?gender identity, coming out and combating
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As you might hope for a film with a script from the great Jules Feiffer, Dan Mirvish's Bernard and Huey bristles with anxious, circuitous, hilarious talk. Based on
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Here's a bit of wisdom that I suspect Drew Pearce, the writer-director of stylish action drama Hotel Artemis, gleaned while making his film: If you have very little
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Let's get this out of the way right away: Ocean's 8 isn't your typical chick flick, and it's more than a heist movie with a novel twist (an all-female cast). St
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Many kids who grew up watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood?in the 1960s and?'70s or many years later in syndication found a sense of joy and perhaps even empowermen
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You know why I thrive in the U.S.? high school student Stella asks her mother on a trip home to China. Because I don't study!? Stella is one of many Chinese student
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