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Too cool to be forgotten

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When Girlfriends opened in New York City on Aug. 11, 1978, a newspaper strike kept the movie’s release from a public announcement. So, director...

These pictures of you

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Hank has given up. Marooned on a deserted island in the Pacific, he has run out of food, water and reasons to live. All...

Thor-sty for more

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There is a second Thor movie...

The high cost of being on top

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Tall and lean, Jimmy Ringo’s come to town. His pants are ill-fitting and his jacket is a little shabby. His mustache is dumpy and...

Infer-nah

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Very early on in director Ron Howard’s ungodly inert Inferno, one of the few interesting characters throws himself off a building, striking several rooftops...

Reel to reel | Week of December 26, 2013

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All is Lost...

Hurts so good

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Good science fiction makes you ask hard questions. Things like “What is the true core of human nature?” and “Do they really expect us...

Happiness for you and me

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The 1998 Academy Awards Ceremony felt a little bit like a private party James Cameron threw for his monumental Titanic, which sailed away with 11 statues that evening, but that was also the night 57 million Americans met one singer/ songwriter who left almost as ...

Cameras watching cameras

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Somewhere in a remote part of Japan, a film crew is shooting a low-budget zombie movie in an abandoned World War II facility. The two leads...

The Medicine

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The sages call it by many names: yagé, ambiwaska, aioasca, but most know it as ayahuasca: a hallucinogenic brew drunk during a spiritual ceremony....

A nation of two and L.A. on my mind

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Nothing else matters when you’re in love. People come and go, jobs come and go, the world turns, but none of that sticks. Not...

Sin eater

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The man sits alone in his room. His name is Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton) and he is a gardener, but he might as well...