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2020 movies have a lot to live up to—2019’s movies were some of the best in...
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For the many fans of Parasite, may we recommend Human Capital? The 2013 Italian film, showcased...
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Speaking at the 13th Kustendorf Film & Music Festival, To Live to Sing director Johnny Ma...
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Watching 1917 in 2020, When Our Lives Are More Edited Than Ever
I watched 1917, the Sam Mendes’ World War I epic that appears to unfold in one...
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Margot Robbie found a sneakily brilliant way to research Kayla, the young Fox News employee she...
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Quentin Tarantino never went to film school. But he has a lot to teach, from the...
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Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman has no bigger challenger this Oscar season than Joker, a film heavily...
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Joker received 11 Oscar nominations Monday, the most of any film this year, including for Best Picture,...
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The Mandalorian dropped a proton bomb in its second episode by revealing that Baby Yoda has...
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Irishman Deepfake: YouTube Video Tries Beat Scorsese at De-Aging Stars
Did a deepfake artist take Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci back in time...
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Just Mercy director Destin Daniel Cretton had no choice but to stay close to the facts...
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Oscar-Shortlisted International Directors Tackle Global Issues Through Homeland Perspectives
With the Oscar nominations less than a week away, filmmakers vying for Best International Feature Film...
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How Little Women Uses Color to Create a Story Within a Story
Greta Gerwig’s Little Women shows us from the start how tirelessly Jo March, played by Saoirse...
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The Irishman Is Fifth Most-Popular on Netflix in 2019
The Adam Sandler comedy Murder Mystery was the most popular 2019 U.S. release on Netflix, followed...
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Why Mr. Rogers Always Weighed 143 Pounds
The Mr. Rogers film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood offers a vivid portrayal of the heroically...
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The Joker Script Is Here, and It Breaks a Rule
The Joker script is now available online, just in time for Oscar voters to consider the...
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8 The Irishman Inside Jokes and Callbacks, From David Ferrie to Don Rickles
The Irishman may provide Martin Scorsese’s final commentary on decades of gangster films, including his own....
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Why Bombshell Was Originally Called Lucite Desk
Bombshell was originally titled Lucite Desk, a reference to a type of furniture that symbolized Fox...
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Clemency star Alfre Woodard plays a warden in the death-row drama, and visited condemned men on...
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Film festivals require a strategy. It’s accepted as gospel among independents that a feature film is...
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Martin Scorsese. Stanley Kubrick. Alfred Hitchcock. As time passes, new models inevitably emerge. In art, politics and...
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“The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe...
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It’s a glorious time to be a horror fan and a horror moviemaker. As proof continues...
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Stamping the MovieMaker seal of approval on each destination in our annual guide to the 50...
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The Irishman, the Oscar nominated film in which Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci...
