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Spider-Man, Chinatown 2, and Other Movies Cannon Films Tried and Failed to Make in the ’80s
At the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, the impresarios of Cannon Films — best known for movies like Breakin’, Superman...
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The Suicide Squad Director James Gunn on What Makes a Crappy Supervillain Crappy — Starting With Polka-Dot Man
James Gunn bought into the Suicide Squad concept from a very young age, delighting in DC...
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Lorelei Director Sabrina Doyle on Finding First-Time Child Actors for Her Blue-Collar Fable
When Sabrina Doyle was casting her film Lorelei — a working-class fable about a biker, a...
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Loki Creator Influenced by Calvin and Hobbes Mix of ‘Nihilism and Heart’
Loki creator Michael Waldron proudly lists influences that you can probably see when you watch his...
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The Blue Bird: When Jane Fonda, Elizabeth Taylor and Cicely Tyson Made a U.S.-Soviet Cinematic Flop
In the mid-1970s, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union thawed a...
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Everyone Watching Loki Agrees the Time Keepers Are Bogus, Right?
Sometime last week, everyone watching Loki agreed at about the same time that the Time Keepers...
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Do Kids Still Want to Be in Rock Bands? Absolutely, Say Coast Directors
When directors Jessica Hester and Derek Schweickart started interviewing small-town California teens for their new movie...
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Those Who Wish Me Dead and the Pros and Cons of MacGuffins
Those Who Wish Me Dead is a smokejumper vs. assassins thriller that finds Angelina Jolie trying...
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The Outside Story Is a Relatable Movie for Introverts — and Everyone Who Went Through the Last Year
The Outside Story was shot before the pandemic, but the amount of people who can relate...
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Mare of Easttown Finale Will Be ‘Satisfying and Still Surprising,’ Director Craig Zobel Says
Mare of Easttown is the small-town murder mystery of the moment — along with the usual...
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Green Knight Trailer; Globes Jockeying; Let’s Decipher Tom Cruise
The Green Knight trailer reigns; who might benefit from the Golden Gloves mess; let’s try to...
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Invincible Is the Most Brutal and Excellent Superhero Cartoon We’ve Ever Seen
With Invincible, Amazon Prime may have managed to produce a superhero story even more brutal than...
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The MCU Keeps Giving Bad Guys Good Ideas
The Marvel Universe has a strange habit it keeps repeating, including in The Falcon and the...
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When Bruce Lee Died — and Launched the Bruceploitation Genre
When Bruce Lee died on July 20, 1973, Hollywood and Hong Kong scrambled to replace him,...
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Charlotte Kirk and Neil Marshall Want to Be Judged by Their Work — Starting With The Reckoning
If you’ve read anything about Charlotte Kirk and Neil Marshall in the last two years, it’s...
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Emerald Fennell: Promising Young Woman Is Like a Great First Date Gone Bad
Promising Young Woman is nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director (Emerald Fennell), Best...
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The Syrian Regime Disappeared Their Friend — the Film Ayouni Remembers Him
Yasmin Fedda and Eric Steuer first met when their mutual friend, Bassel Khartibal, disappeared in Syria...
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Let's Discuss Concrete Cowboy, With Idris Elba as a Philly Horseman
Concrete Cowboy is a coming-of-age film about teenager Cole who comes across a love for the...
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400,000 Children Are Starving in Yemen. The People to Blame Want to Hide It From You
When we first meet 6-year-old Abeer Otham Thaneb, one of the two main children portrayed in...
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How Mank Production Designer Don Burt Recreated Hearst Castle Without Visiting It
Production designer Don Burt’s biggest challenge in David Fincher’s Mank was recreating the opulent home of...
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How Mank Production Designer Don Burt Recreated Hearst Castle Without Visiting It
Production designer Don Burt’s biggest challenge in David Fincher’s Mank was recreating the opulent home of...
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