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David V. Picker on MUSTS, MAYBES, AND NEVERS: A BOOK ABOUT THE MOVIES
To list the films and filmmakers David V. Picker has been involved with in his careers as president of United Artists, Paramount, and Columbia borders on giving a comprehensive history of the medium in...
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John Sayles and Yolanda Ross on GO FOR SISTERS
Yolanda Ross (right), Edward James Olmos and LisaGay Hamilton dredge the Tijuana underworld in GO FOR SISTERS. It’s back to the border for John Sayles, who in films like LONE STAR has explored the...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE
Jennifer Lawrence (right) and Josh Hutcherson can’t help making Elizabeth Banks verrrrry nervous in THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE. So it’s back to the arena, where life is cheap but the production...
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Review: MARS AT SUNRISE
Heightened reality illustrates the conflict between a Palestinian artist (Ali Suliman, left) and an Israeli solider (Guy El Hanan) in MARS AT SUNRISE. The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: ROBOCOP
Joel Kinnaman strives to be a cyborg with soul in ROBOCOP. And so, shouldering our backpacks and steeling ourselves against the urge to look back, we leave the doldrums of the start-of-2014 release...
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Review: KIDS FOR CASH
The courtroom was the scene of the crime in KIDS FOR CASH. Former Judge Mark Ciavarella wants you to know it was never about Kids for Cash. In his interviews with director Robert May (and kudos to the...
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Review: TEENAGE
Jitterbug dance contest at the Shrine Auditorium in Southern CA, 1939. From TEENAGE. It is the privilege of teenagers to think that they are the first to confront the world with their quest for...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: TRANSCENDENCE
It’s a brave but not especially bold new world faced by (clockwise from top) Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Cillian Murphy, and Morgan Freeman in TRANSCENDENCE. It’s some kind of irony that the experience...
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Hour of the Wolf Movie Review: TRANSCENDENCE
Johnny Depp goes digital in TRANSCENDENCE So because of Hour of the Wolf’s pre-emption last week, my review of TRANSCENDENCE, the science fiction romantic thriller in which Johnny Depp’s consciousness...
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Hour of the Wolf Movie Review: THE GIVER
Jeff Bridges (left) and Brenton Thwaites go where only the Pepperidge Farms man previously dared to tread, remembering the way things used to be in THE GIVER. I had my concerns about The Giver,...
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Hour of the Wolf Movie Review: THE MIDNIGHT SWIM
You can be forgiven. If your first thought when you hear the phrase, “found-footage mockumentary” is a sincere wish that somebody should have released a Web virus long ago to wipe every copy of The...
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KING KONG (1976) – Temple of Bad
2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the film that changed the entertainment industry as we know it, the film the rewrote the rules on action entertainment, that dazzled audiences with its innovative...
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ZOOTOPIA: The Furry Fight Against Trump – Hour of the Wolf Movie Review
Here’s a curious thing: A fun, funny, action-packed animated family film that just by happenstance strikes at the very core of the ugliness behind the presidential campaign of a certain,...
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