The bumbling Johnny English was made to take the piss out of James Bond, but with time he's grown ever more like the British super-spy. After writing Pierce Brosnan
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Friday, Oct. 26It's Fogtober at the Nuart this month. The Fog, John Carpenter's 1980 follow-up to his smash hit Halloween, returns to theaters for a one-week
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The biggest surprise about Patrick Wang's sweepingly ambitious, two-part, four-hour ensemble piece A Bread Factory is: The film, a sort of cinematic state-of-the-ar
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A sure-fire way for a director to get me to tune out of a horror film is to over-explain the origin of the movie's evil entities. It's the inexplicable and
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The '80s were a strange time in American culture. Recovering from the smiley-faced, lackadaisical haze of the '70s, everything suddenly became shiny, large and over
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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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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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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 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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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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