One of the most reliable sub-genres of the past 10 years has been the raunchy, R-rated sex comedy, a type of film […]
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The rapidly growing self-cannibalization wing of Walt Disney Pictures has manufactured a new live-action version of Beauty and the Beast that courted […]
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Jordan Peele’s horror-comedy Get Out is breaking new ground for its blunt, satirical take on the current state of race relations. […]
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There are few purer forms of entertainment than monkeys, wanton destruction, and comically oversized objects. So when a team of visionary […]
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Welcome back! Last time, we took a look at movies based on U.S. history from Columbus to the end of the […]
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Comics, like movies, are texts ripe for deconstruction. Animators and writers deliberately plot their stories for audience entertainment, while simultaneously commenting […]
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There’s a scene about two-thirds into David Fincher’s Zodiac in which David Toschi, the San Francisco homicide detective played by Mark […]
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Richard Linklater’s latest movie Everybody Wants Some!! follows the lives of college baseball players over a weekend in 1980, as they […]
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George Santayana isn’t a household name, but something he said is one of the best-known quotations in human history: “Those who cannot […]
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My fellow Americans, here we are at the dawn of a new day. A great, shining day of promise and change. […]
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In comedy, reputation is everything and nothing. It’s something to be valued, earned as it is through endless nights of stand-up […]
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I’m not sure there is another book series like the Harry Potter novels. J.K. Rowling’s sprawling, seven-year epic captured the hearts […]
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