Brittany Murphy's husband, screenwriter Simon Monjack, was the cause of her firing last month from a movie project being filmed in Puerto Rico at the time, accor
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Whether it's dinner and a movie or popcorn to munch on during the previews, your stomach is often tied to the cinematic experience. From the comic relief of Robi
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What do you call artists who advocate? Artivists, of course. The filmmakers on show at the Artivist Film Festival (sixth annual, in fact) are on a mission to raise p
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More zombies: Read GENDY ALIMURUNG's “This Zombie Moment: Hunting for What Lies Beneath the Zombie Zeitgeist,” STEVEN MIKULAN's “I Rode W
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Forty years ago this week, the Cannes Film Festival ground to a halt. At an impromptu press conference held on the morning of May 18, 1968 — nine days into the fe
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The ripples of unease that emanate from the work of Austrian director Michael Haneke have been spreading ever wider for well over a decade now. Last year, Haneke rea
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Lending a winning imprimatur to Asia Argento’s bloated adaptation of JT LeRoy’s novel The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, French director Gaspar Noé — a
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You can’t exactly ignore the central device of the CBS sitcom
How I Met Your Mother: It kicks off each show. We see a couple of bored-looking
kids from the yea
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Produced piecemeal on a shoestring budget, George Romero’s debut feature,
Night of the Living Dead (1968), was a fever
dream of EC Comics and old Universa
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Photo by R. Sebree/FoxReality shows whose purpose is to anoint a new star in some profession — modeling,
fashion design, kissing the ass of a cartoony real est
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Photos by Saeed Adyani
The word “homage” is hardly ever used
these days without a sneer. We infer pretension, thinly disguised plagiarism,
lack of
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Takeshi Kitano may be the most recognizable person in Japan, but almost nobody in the United States has ever laid eyes on him. A pop Renaissance man, Kitano is a ub
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