Movies
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At 40, the Sundance Film Festival celebrates its past and looks to the futureJan 16, 2024 12:08 pm - Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck remember the feeling of being the new kids at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2004, they’d come to Park City, Utah, armed with a short film “Gowa...
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What to stream this week: ‘Fallen Leaves’ romancing, Jason Momoa roaming, Green Day rocking and ‘Fast X’ explodingJan 15, 2024 5:45 am - Jason Momoa hosting a new travel docuseries for Max called “On the Roam” and the Finnish romantic comedy “Fallen Leaves” are some of the new television, movies, music and...
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‘Mean Girls’ takes 1st place at the box office. So fetch.Jan 14, 2024 12:17 pm - Winter storms and cinema closures in North America didn’t dampen the opening weekend for “Mean Girls.” The Paramount release, adapted from the Broadway musical and the 20...
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‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Barbie,’ ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ advance with Producers Guild nominationsJan 12, 2024 12:43 pm - “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” will face off at yet another awards ceremony this season, this time at the Producers Guild Awards where they are among the 10 films nominated f...
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Movie review: Daniel Kaluuya builds a compelling near-future dystopia in ‘The Kitchen’Jan 12, 2024 6:33 am - The near-future is bleak for the working class of London in “The Kitchen,” a well-executed film about a familiar kind of urban dystopian nightmare. It is, ironically, sun...
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From Finland, with love, Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen bring ‘Fallen Leaves’ to HollywoodJan 11, 2024 4:05 pm - There are two types of cinephiles in the world: Aki Kaurismäki fans and future Aki Kaurismäki fans. Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen, the Finnish stars of his latest, the t...
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Audacious Bible-era story ‘The Book of Clarence’ is maybe too audaciousJan 11, 2024 12:19 pm - Somewhere between the sacred and profane, comedy, drama and satire comes “The Book of Clarence,” a retelling of The Greatest Story Ever Told that arrives in theaters appr...
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In the bonkers ‘The Beekeeper,’ Jason Statham has more than a bee in his bonnetJan 11, 2024 5:45 am - Secret agents and murderous assassins seem to lurk in increasingly mundane places. Remember “The Accountant" with Ben Affleck? Or “The Tax Collector” with Shia LaBeouf? ...
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Still trying to make ‘fetch’ happen, now in song: ‘Mean Girls’ gets a musical updateJan 11, 2024 5:45 am - The first “Mean Girls,” that compulsively watchable high school-based social satire by Tina Fey, came out in 2004. The Broadway musical opened in 2018. Now it’s 2024, and...
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Directors Guild nominates Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan, Martin ScorseseJan 10, 2024 2:42 pm - Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig and Martin Scorsese have been nominated by the Directors Guild for its top award. The nominations to the 76th DGA Awards, which followed t...