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Nothing left to lose

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It was one of those moments. The kind where two historical figures crossed paths briefly and a simple exchange carries meaning greater than one...

A fun, fierce and frivolous political act

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Tuesday, Oct. 13 marks the halfway point for TCM’s Women Make Film series — easily the cinematic highlight of 2020 — and the premiere...

‘Good Hair’ a good time

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Morgan Spurlock, look lively. Sacha Baron Cohen, watch your...

Nothing to do with death and dying

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Last night I pulled out a favorite album of mine that I had not listened to in some time, Doolittle by Pixies. Within seconds, I was transported to another time, another place. A smile crept across my face, my feet began to tap and a series of memories flooded forth...

Streaming cat blues

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The bad news: the novel coronavirus has disrupted life as we know it, and will for the next couple months. But, you’ve gone to the store,...

Festival for the rest of us

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Don´t be scared. It’s just a film festival...

UFO snark

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Most modern comedies end up being so stupid that it’s painful to watch the actors embarrass themselves on the big screen. That’s why it’s a pleasure to see comic team Simon Pegg and Nick Frost skewer the alien conspiracy genre in the consistently funny Paul...

Yes, they mean you

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Thrill-seekers live for the rush that comes from defying death; adrenaline is the body’s chemical “thank you” for keeping it alive. Somehow, that’s the sensation I got watching Dear White People, writer/ director Justin Simien’s declaration that he didn’t come to ...

A surreal take on a classic

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Tolstoy’s classic novel of love and infidelity, Anna Karenina has been brought to stage and screen many times, often with mediocre results due to its complexity. Pay attention: It’s mid-1800s Russia, and Anna (Keira Knightley) is married to Karenin (Jude Law), a dull...

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....

‘No Home Movie’ is the last gasp for subject and...

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For the godfather of narrative cinema, D.W. Griffith, moving pictures “moved.” As he said in 1944, “What the modern movie lacks is beauty, the...

‘Howl’ is arty and difficult, and exactly right for the Sundance...

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PARK CITY, Utah — We were not even four hours into Sundance John Cooper-style...