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Cannes Lineups: Director's Fortnight
Previously in Cannes newsThe Coen Bros led Jury and the Lineups for Competition and Un Certain Regard While the competition & un certain regard films are the "star headliners" as it were, they...
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Tribeca: Grab the Raid Lest You Get Stung
Tribeca coverage continues - here's Jason on a Giant Bee Creature Feature. We're living in the middle of a miniature horror renaissance right now. Instant classics like The Babadook and It Follows are...
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Have you heard the one about the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot?
I have a terrible terrible just awful confession to make, dear readers. I hope you'll find forgiveness in your hearts as it will surely sound like blasphemy. My favorite performance in the classic lady...
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Nine to Five: "Best Shot" Visual Index
For this week's episode of Hit Me With Your Best Shot: the classic comedy Nine to Five (1980). We chose it to coincide with the forthcoming premiere of Grace & Frankie which will reunite Jane Fonda...
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Link-sync for your life!
Silver ScreenPajiba on the way the media is handling Kristen Stewart's current love life. Somehow I had missed this story (cuz I don't care about celebrity dating) but this is a joy to read.MNPP...
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Women's Pictures - Jane Campion's In the Cut
Anne Marie's Women's Pictures continues with her month-long look at the films of Jane Campion. Before you look at me askance for choosing the 2003 film In the Cut for this week’s Jane Campion movie,...
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Tribeca: A Good Kill To Backtrack
Further reporting from the festival in Tribeca, here's Jason on a pair of disparate flicks about Sad-Eyed Men Doing Bad Things. Good Kill -- If you've seen Andrew Niccol's modern sci-fi classic Gattaca...
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Drama Desk Nominations, Tony's More Inclusive Cousin
Lin-Manuel Miranda as "Hamilton"The Drama Desk Nominations for the 2014/2015 theater season have been announced and the Tony Awards follow suit in a week's tim (theater seasons run summer to spring)....
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A.I. "WALL•E"
Dancin' Dan here to continue TFE's Artificial Intelligence Week with a little something on my favorite dancing robots. If there’s a common thread in stories of artificial intelligence, it’s that we can...
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Tim's Toons: The new short "The Alchemist's Letter"
Tim here. It's been a good few weeks for animated short films about the fluctuating nature of memories and the complex relationship we have with the past: the warm glow has hardly faded from the online...
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Gawk-worthy: Southpaw Poster
Manuel here encouraging you to gawk at Jake Gyllenhaal in the new poster for his boxing film Southpaw (which got the YES/NO/MAYBE SO treatment a couple of weeks ago when we first saw how ripped our...
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A.I. 'Buffybot'
Some say it's better than the real thing.” With those words we are introduced to Buffybot, a robotic replica of everyone’s favorite Pointy-wielding, banter-spewing blond vampire slayer... Manuel...
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"Listen to Me Marlon"
The Hot Docs 2015 Film Festival started in Toronto yesterday. Our Canadian correspondent Amir is on hand to cover the proceedings. The best film of last year’s Hot Docs festival was Robert Greene’s...
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Superman v Batman v Fantastic Four v Spider-Man v Indifference
Tom Holland for Spider-Man?We all know that eventually the superhero bubble will burst. But until then, they will dominate cinema. Still, even in their new golden age of popularity, there is a growing...
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Open Thread
You've been awfully awfully quiet this week. What's on your cinematic mind? What movie, actor or director have you been thinking of a lot lately? Don't be shy. Tell us everything.
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A.I. "Ghost in the Shell"
Artificial Intelligence Week, our way of saying "hey, Ex-Machina and soon Age of Ultron are in theaters so it's trending, sort of" continues with Tim Brayton on an anime classic... If we're going to...
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"Something Rotten" and/in Adapting "Doctor Zhivago"
Does the classic film / novel translate well to the stage? Stage Door, our theater review series, is in hyperdrive, it's difficult to keep up what with shows opening left and right. The Tonys, like the...
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Damaged Twinsies
Don't be alarmed but this is what The Joker will look like in that Batman villain spinoff movie Suicide Squad (2016). It's surely daunting to follow Heath Ledger into this role but perhaps Jared Leto's...
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4 Movies That Introduced Artificial Intelligence (As An Afterthought)
Michael C here to celebrate some of cinema's lesser known machine life. Artificial Intelligence is such a rich idea, if it is introduced into a film more often than not it is going to be the...
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Daredevil - Final Thoughts on Season 1
Previously on Daredevil. It felt lonely reviewing each of the first seven episodes since there wasn't much discussion here. Presumably those of you who were interested have now finished this series so...
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