For 75 years, the United States has dominated the production of World War II action comedies. There's Spielberg's 1941 (1979), Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in Operatio
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What does it take for a woman to win the trust it takes to become an action director? For Anna Foerster, it took two decades, an expert's knowledge of visual effects
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With all respect, sir, may I ask, who are you??What you see before you is a man, a simple monk.Are you the Lord Buddha??I believe I am a reflection, like the moon on
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Everyone ? including us ? has a top-10 list of 2016's best films. But maybe you've seen all those movies (or all the ones you intend to). Maybe you're looking for le
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Like many people after Carrie Fisher's untimely passing on Tuesday, Dec. 27, I was moved to revisit Postcards From the Edge, the Mike Nicholsdirected film that Fishe
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Watching movies for a living is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it, and our film critics are up to the task. While they see plenty of stellar movies, they
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New Year's Eve reeks of desperation. It's the most depressing holiday we have. Thanksgiving has the most terrible politics, probably, but New Year's Eve is full of o
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Carrie Fisher was always smarter than the words and roles written for her, smarter than what Hollywood thought it wanted out of a princess. On Christmas Eve of the a
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Walking out of Jim Jarmusch's Paterson last May at Cannes, I felt as if it was the closest the director had come to making an artistic manifesto. Having seen it agai
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One of the quasi-bohemians in Mike Mills' gauzy 20th Century Women loves to document ephemera, taking photos of everything she owns. A similar instinct ? archiving a
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The idea of a picture frame and what it entails ? coloring within the lines, what is seen and what is hidden, as well as the voyeuristic act of capturing an image it
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From Stranger Things?to Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, 2016 was a year filled with some pretty amazing (and some pretty awful) new films and TV shows. Here is L.A
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