Detroit is about one of the more unpleasant things to have happened in a city where so many unpleasant things have happened […]
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A personal sacrifice, when done right, can be an incredibly moving and effective part of a story. When done wrong, it […]
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“Hooray for Hollywood” will never sound right to me without the tin-can hiss of a VHS tape many times rewound. Growing […]
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War for the Planet of the Apes opens with scenes that are familiar to American viewers: soldiers silently work their way […]
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To the extent that there are James Bonds in the real world — dashing, highly skilled secret agents who can kill […]
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The final scene of 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut takes place in a toy store. As Dr. Bill Harford and his wife, […]
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Until 1968, the term “zombie” was used to refer to the Haitian folklore belief of reanimating a dead body through magical […]
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One of the music cues Donald Trump used during his presidential campaign was from the soundtrack for Air Force One, a movie […]
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Going to the movies can be overwhelming these days, in whatever year this is. There are so many choices! This weekend […]
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With Dunkirk, writer-director Christopher Nolan, most famous for his Batman trilogy but even better at mind-benders like Memento and Inception, applies his […]
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There’s aging badly and then there’s Revenge of the Nerds. What passed for collegiate underdog hijinks in 1984 goes by different […]
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There isn’t much battle action in War for the Planet of the Apes, but it still feels like a war movie […]
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