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As studio heads like Bob Iger attempt to reassure anxious investors, he and so many others in the industry are confronting ...
You’d be excused for being suspicious of these concoctions. Poured into clear-glass one-gallon jars of unregulated ...
There’s an interesting dissonance between changing times and values. Younger generations typically push the cultural envelope ...
It was never a given that humans would logically connect one cinematic sequence to the next, thinking of them as a story ...
Movies that are direct follow-ups in a series of otherwise self-contained films take a risk. There’s the potential for bigger payoffs and bigger disappointments. Mission: Impossible - The Final ...
Cheating is a worldwide phenomenon, and is a challenge even here in the United States, but in Asia it has reached near-crisis levels. Last year, riots broke out when teachers at a school in Zhongxiang ...
These films are still considered exploitation films in the same sense that most 1980s horror and comedy films from the U.S. can also be categorized as exploitation. They have nudity, violence, and ...
What is there left to say about Casablanca? It is a testament to performances mixed with a daring screenplay that resonates with audiences both during World War II and 80 years later. The love story ...
We may pretend we prefer the starving artist, a real Kurt Cobain type, brooding and writing raw emotional lyrics; but, there are plenty of terrific covers that challenge the originals in both quality ...
(Autochrome of a fisherman and his wife in Volendam, the Netherlands, 1919--Source.) By the time of Albert Kahn’s death in 1940, the French banker and philanthropist had amassed a collection of more ...
Grand Cayman Island, famously described as a sunny place for shady people, owes its extraordinary rise and equally spectacular fall to three people: expat lawyer Bill Walker, best-selling novelist ...
In the 1936 screwball comedy mystery The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Dr. Lawrence Bradford (William Powell) asks his ex-wife, the rich mystery writer Paula (Jean Arthur), “What is a cocktail dress?” She replies ...