I recently caught up with Joel Kim Booster and Andrew Ahn to chat about Fire Island's laugh-out-loud humor, romantic heart and social critique.…
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Smith has crafted a funny and wistful observance on coming to terms with the passage of time and life between parents, adult children and siblings.…
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A renaissance of female filmmakers producing works of substance and volume with accomplished storytelling and filmmaking prowess suggests an industry sea change.…
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In this landscape, sophisticated and discerning moviegoing audiences will be largely out of luck.…
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The Oscars face diminished cultural relevance in a modern era where nominated films largely lack prestige and the notion of Hollywood grandeur has long since faded to black. Here's why.…
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I sat down with director/writer/producer Michael Angelo Covino and writer Kyle Marvin at Google HQ to discuss The Climb, their film about a tumultuous but enduring friendship.…
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Benh Zeitlin’s Oscar-nominated, 2012 masterpiece Beasts of the Southern Wild was a preternaturally accomplished first feature, a richly evocative portrait of a young girl’s coming of age in a Louisiana delta that was part social, and part magical, realism. As a most deserving Best…
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In Just Mercy, young, Harvard-educated attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) eschews a big law firm career in favor of starting a life-changing Alabama organization dedicated to exonerating wrongly accused death row inmates. It’s a strong, thoughtful and moving drama with as good an…
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Filmmaker Tom Harper on Flying High with The Aeronauts’ Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne Filmmaker Tom Harper is having quite a year, first with Wild Rose, about a Glasgow ex-con nursing a dream of becoming a Nashville country star, and now his new picture…
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Trey Edwards Shults’ emotional Waves begins with a swirling camera capturing a moment ripped out of life, or time, in the romance of a south Florida teen couple who, for a brief moment, have what seems like about everything. They are young, smart, popular and…
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