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It's been a decade since director Jonathan Glazer's last film, Under the Skin, a critical darling starring Scarlet Johansson but a box office flop despite being a science fiction horror film. Glazer disappeared for a couple of years after that, resurfacing in the mid to late
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Mark your calendars, Santa is about to bring us all a heaping dose of psychosexual tension for Christmas. Gothic romantic thriller Saltburn is set to arrive on Amazon Prime on December 22, just in time to make many a family holiday gathering incredibly awkward. The second feature film from director
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For American or international audiences, who perhaps only occasionally peer into the hysteria that is the United Kingdom, there was a year-long obsession in the media with an extremely elderly gentleman called Captain Tom. This military veteran attempted to walk the length of his garden 100 times to raise
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If it's the last Monday morning in November, it must be Holiday Shopping Time. No matter what end-of-the-year celebration you pick as your favorite, right now, your inbox is filling up with endless emails hawking deals you don't need, your relatives are stressing
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Imagine you are a historian. You dedicate your life to understanding, uncovering, and preserving events of the present and past. You are a stalwart of accuracy, yet flexible of mind. Evidence is paramount. Your work is meaningful and important. Now, imagine a bulldozer driven by Ridley Scott comes through and
Classics Revisited
While Netflix's lavish period drama The Crown may have established itself as the pinnacle of our collective pop cultural shorthand for how we understand not only the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, but the larger struggles of the House of Windsor, Peter Morgan's six-season epic
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It’s unclear whether The End We Start From’s choice not to change the bland, ephemeral title of Megan Hunter’s 2018 novel is bold or unwise. Going into the survival film, you have to process your expectations of the soft-focus, overly minimalistic student relationship drama such a
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What if there existed a medical procedure that concretely proved we were in love with our partner? As long as we’re willing to give up an insignificant piece of keratin, a scientific device will determine if we were both in love, if only one of us was in love,
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Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American rights to the feature film Wicked Little Letters, a foul-mouthed period comedy starring Olivia Colman (The Crown) and Jessie Buckley (Fingernails). The film, which reteams former The Lost Daughter co-stars, is based on a true story of a dark and
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It’s rare you see a British debut that so perfectly matches the sensibilities of both its co-directors and more refreshing if a British debut doesn’t concern itself with the soon-to-be tired themes of grief and trauma. Of course, The Kitchen is in part about both
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Holiday films are one of the few guaranteed ways to bring in audiences left in the TV landscape left in the wake of the streaming revolution. Part of it is the dated nature of the holiday experience -- no one watches Christmas tree lightings in January, and there's no
Documentary
Ismail Noor Muhammad Abdul Rahman, better known as Ismail Merchant, moved from India to New York in 1958 at the age of 22 to study at NYU. A year later, he met 30-year-old American director James Ivory at a screening in New York of Ivory's documentary