Making notes in 1949 for a review of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell wrote that Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can be … while h
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Along its winding road to crucifying the American judiciary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired — which aired to mostly warm reviews on HBO a few weeks ago and be
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Things never happen the same way twice.” Thus boometh Aslan the lion (Liam Neeson), alias the Son of God, popping his computer-generated shaggy head briefly into
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I don’t mind scaring people,” Bette Davis once told the writer Boze Hadleigh. It comes in handy — in the business, and in life.�
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At this year’s Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (a.k.a. VC Filmfest) — another typically strong program from the 24-year-old event — the documentaries
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City Lights
As John Adams on TV lengthens into April, and overlaps with LACMA’s series on Brits in Hollywood —
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The setup for Sundance Channel's 10-part Canadian import Terminal City is meant to be an irreverent juxtaposition of bad news and badly delivered news. The ring
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Until the mid-1980s debut of The Equalizer's hero, Robert McCall — a Cold War vet disillusioned by the soul-killing nature of spy work who finds redemption in
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The decades-long process of attrition, neglect and outright persecution by which Soviet authorities destroyed the career of one of Soviet Russia's greatest arti
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The Orphanage is a film that often makes something out of nothing — something being scaring the bejesus out of you. Director Juan Antonio Bayona and screenwriter S
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At the Toronto Film Festival last September, Ella Taylor talked to Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona about Peter Pan, his happy childhood and others’ less fortu
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There are two momentous performances in the Darwinian horror fable I Am Legend. One is given by the movie’s star, Will Smith, whom I’ll get to in a minute. The o
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