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‘Mars Express’ Review: Thrilling Cyberpunk Mystery Warns of a Future Conflict Between Humans and A.I.
Fears of a future where artificial intelligence overpowers flesh-and-blood humans have always been a paramount tenet of sci-fi storytelling. And...
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Brillante Mendoza, Coco Martin’s Vigilante Saga ‘Pula’ Sets Netflix World Premiere With Fire and Ice Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
Philippines auteur Brillante Mendoza’s film “Pula” has set a world premiere on Netflix. The narrative unfolds in the devoutly Catholic town of Pula...
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‘Unfrosted’ Review: Jerry Seinfeld Directs and Stars in a Biopic of the Pop-Tart. It’s Based on a True Story, but It’s Knowingly Nuts
While broadly based in reality, the entire movie is a put-on, a wackazoid tall tale, a comedy that uses the breakfast wars as the spin-off point...
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‘A Photographic Memory’ Review: A Filmmaker Traces Her Late Mother’s Vibrant Life in Ingenious Meta Doc
When filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed first hears the recorded voice of her late mother Sheila Turner Seed, who died when she was only 18 months...
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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Cast on Why They Forced Larry David to Let Them Read the Show’s Outlines
When “Curb Your Enthusiasm” began its run on HBO all the way back in 2000, creator/star Larry David had a very specific rule: He wouldn’t let the...
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Screaming, Stunts and Playing Dead: ‘Tarot’ Star Larsen Thompson Reveals the Six On-Set Secrets Every Horror Actor Must Know
“Tarot” has the makings of a classic sleepover horror movie, fine-tuned for an astrology-obsessed Gen Z. When a group of friends accidentally read...
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‘The Fall Guy’: How Emily Blunt’s Look Was Inspired by Hollywood Directors Including Greta Gerwig, Patty Jenkins and Kathryn Bigelow
“The Fall Guy” costume designer Sarah Evelyn received the script long before Oscar nominee Emily Blunt was on board to play Jody, an aspiring film...
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Hannah Marks on the Long Journey To Bring John Green’s ‘Turtles All the Way Down’ To the Screen
Hannah Marks started acting when she was 6 years old, after seeing her mother’s acting reel. And she’s pretty much worked nonstop, from roles in...
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‘The Idea of You’ Is Now Streaming on Prime Video
Move over, “Anyone But You.” The summer’s sexy, new rom-com, starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in a whirlwind age-gap romance, is...
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‘Fawlty Towers’ Stage Play Won’t Have Racial Slurs, John Cleese Says: ‘The Literal-Minded Don’t Understand Irony’
The London West End stage adaptation of “Fawlty Towers” will be free of racial slurs, creator John Cleese has said. “Fawlty Towers – The Play” is...
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Iran Pressures Mohammed Rasoulof to Pull ‘Seed of the Sacred Fig’ From Cannes, Slaps Travel Ban on Film’s Actors
Iranian authorities are exerting heavy pressure on director Mohammad Rasoulof to pull his latest work “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” from the Cannes...
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Spanish Producers at Hot Docs Tout Opportunities in Their Country’s Booming Documentary Sector
Spain’s push to position itself as a premier player in the world’s film and TV industries extends to the documentary zone, as both audiences and...