This year's summer movie season has a little something for everyone. From June to August, big popcorn flicks will once again jockey and jostle to entertain the mass
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Leigh Whannell has set his vicious, stylish sci-fi pulp thriller Upgrade in a near future of self-driving cars and fully Alexa-ruled homes, telling a story of reve
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When she arrives at work each day at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre headquarters on Hollywood Boulevard, Margot Gerber cannot help but be reminded
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Saturday, June 2The American Cinematheque's rare tribute to Czech animator Jirí Trnka continues with a program headlined by A Midsummer Night's Dream, a ph
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There's a studio in town making epic CGI movies starring legendary characters like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Thor and Hercules, adapting authors such as Jules
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"I'm going to tell you this story of a family you consider illegal but you're gonna recognize as uniquely American," writer Rafael AgustÃn says of the "
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Let's give it this much: Jacques Doillon's tough-sit, sex-life-of-the-artist boob-a-palooza looks great, especially in its opening moments. Rodin's first scene, an
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An easy way to suggest that a tangled story about desperate people brushes up against profundity is to throw the word American? in the title. So it goes with Bart L
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Just after noon on Friday, in an empty theater in Beverly Hills, Future World had an unremarkable premiere, and that is unfortunate. While the film breaks no new gr
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Movies in the 1970s managed to reflect the anxieties that had many Americans locking their doors for the first time. Nuclear wastefueled monsters and communist agen
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I was brought into this world to be abandoned, notes Mary Shelley deep into the flimsy but amusing film that bears her name. The line resonates, of course, and not
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