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An era on screen

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A crime drama about rival street gangs, a romance between two high schoolers, a history of shadow politics and a young man who feels...

Team Jarmusch

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It’s amazing how popularity can change perception. When Stephanie Meyer’s 2005 novel, Twilight, cracked The New York Times bestseller list, vampires were brought back into the mainstream in a big way. Beginning in 2008, Meyer’s series was adapted into five movies and...

Ford v Ferrari

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There’s a scene halfway through Ford v Ferrari where Carrol Shelby (Matt Damon) takes Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) for a spin on the test-track in...

Compulsive viewing

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Let’s get this out of the way: If you’ve ever been in a car crash, The Road Movie is not for you. Much in...

You’re gonna carry that weight a long time

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The world has not been kind to Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington). Though he had outstanding talent on the baseball diamond, he couldn’t break the...

Turn it on

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When Kaily Smith Westbrook and Randi Kleiner first set out to create a festival celebrating the art of independent television in January 2015, they...

Scary? Shh! ‘It’…

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When figuring out how to word-hump all the “amazing details” from a five-bazillion-page Stephen King novel into a movie’s screenplay, maybe filmmakers can start...

The survivor’s tale

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Aug. 1, 1966: U.S. Marine and University of Texas at Austin engineering student Charles Whitman entered the UT tower, climbed to the 28th floor,...

One last toast to the wunderkind

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Let us raise our cups. Standing as some of us do on opposite ends of the river, and drink together. ... To the movies....

Replicant? No, repli-can!

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It is profoundly insightful and upsetting that both Blade Runners explicitly tackle the sins of civilizations built on slavery and sexual subjugation without including...

All-American

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There are Hollywood icons, and then there’s James Stewart. He was the guy who told Donna Reed he’d “throw a lasso around the moon”...

Something to see; something to read

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Well, that didn’t take very long, did it? It’s only the second week of 2022, and we already have the first great movie and...