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Now Playing: “Men Go to Battle” and “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You”
In this week's column, Vikram Murthi looks at an indie film about the Civil War, and a documentary on a TV pioneer.
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On the Coens’ Love-Hate Relationship with Hollywood
Jake Cole on the Coens' relationship with Hollywood and stardom.
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Now Playing: “Hail, Caesar!”
Vikram Murthi on the big new release of the week: Joel and Ethan Coen's "Hail, Caesar!"
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Blu-ray Review: “Tomorrowland”
Tomorrowland is an immensely frustrating film, precisely because it gets so many things right.. As directed by Brad Bird, Tomorrowland is a bright, well-paced, visually intriguing, and complex spectacle. In many ways, it feels like a Brad Bird film in that its...
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A Tale of Two Batmans: “Forever” and “Begins”
Batman doesn’t exist. Objectively, Joel Schumacher’s neon camp-fests are no less defensible than the “what if he were a real guy?” approach director Christopher Nolan and co-screenwriter David Goyer introduced 10 years ago with Batman Begins. Batman has been a...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 198: “Tomorrowland”
This week on Mousterpiece Cinema, we're going to the future! Or an alternate dimension! Or another planet! Or...listen, we're just going to where the jet packs are, OK? On this episode, Josh and Gabe talk about Disney's big-budget blockbuster epic from directo...
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“Tomorrowland”
Tomorrowland is built on an admirable message, and very little else. The new film from director and co-writer Brad Bird is often beautiful to look at, with a capable ensemble of actors, and is constantly throwing curveballs at its characters which buoys the ex...
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The 19 Best Actors-Turned-Directors
There's no single path that leads to directing a film--some dive right behind the camera as their first job, others work up to it after years of toiling as assistant directors, and then others get the gig because of their work in front of the camera coupled wi...
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Why Michelle Pfeiffer Deserves a Career Comeback
Nearly every year brings news of a comeback or return-to-form for a major film actor. Last year’s Birdman brought renewed appreciation and a long-overdue Oscar nomination to Michael Keaton. Bruce Dern got a late-career highlight the year before with Nebraska. ...
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Love Streams: 1/8/2014
Nothing beats dragging your heavily resistant friends to the movies, sliding into the semi-uncomfortable and questionably sticky seat, and dealing with the annoying texter three rows below you. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.
Or in this instance, the...
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