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Home viewing: Olivia de Havilland

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Walking through life with you, ma’am, has been a very gracious thing. —They Died With Their Boots On Like all great Hollywood stars, her story...

Are you awake?

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The folks at Microsoft announced Alan Wake back in 2005, hyping how the game would change the face of gaming. Wish they let us know we would have to wait five years for the game, during which Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto IV and Modern Warfare have already changed ...

Where the coconuts are

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Zama — the latest from Argentinean writer/director Lucrecia Martel — opens with a parable: There is a fish, a long-suffering fish, which spends its...

Reasonably entertaining diversion

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Oh my God, they’ve shot Dame Helen Mirren! Realizing the Oscar-winning actress is playing a part, and not herself, the thought nonetheless is inescapable when Mirren’s ex-CIA agent takes a bullet in RED. I mean: How dare they...

Yo ho no

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‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’ fires an errant cannonball%u2028 It’s hard not to mention Chicken Run without wanting to make a joke about Mel Gibson voicing a rooster. And while that may be the lasting thought from the 2000 movie, the fact remains that it was ...

Home Viewing: Melissa Tamminga on ‘Stories We Tell’

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About halfway through Sarah Polley’s 2013 documentary Stories We Tell, Michael Polley turns to his daughter and asked, “What is this documentary about?” Well, it’s...

The hidden sounds of Alabama

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The section of the Tennessee River that forms the northern border of Muscle Shoals, Ala., didn’t always go by that name. Early Native Americans called it “The Singing River” and believed a river princess sang its soft melody...

Her show

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For some, equality is a game of mathematics: Clinical, sterile and dull. But, high up in the Rocky Mountains at the Telluride Film Festival,...

‘Sausage Party’ goes further than you think


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The first 70-or-so minutes of Sausage Party is obscenely insightful, a hilariously raunchy contemplation of how spiritual beliefs can be ignorance-inducing and socially blinding....

Reel to reel | Week of August 2, 2012

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN...

Top 10 films of the decade

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The first decade of this millennium has been an uncertain one. Terrorist attacks, wars, and financial meltdowns have made us feel vulnerable...

Not this again

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Disney’s effort to turn Kristen Bell into America’s Sweetheart reaches its tipping point with You Again, a flat romantic comedy that packages her in a funny setup and surrounds her with funny people...