Here today: a new festival defiantly reclaims a lost history, bringing contemporary and classic Cambodian cinema to a local ...

Tom Hanks’s confident demeanor is as daunting as Mt. Rushmore and just as effective in discouraging speculation about who those men really are. In his office at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, ...

The film begins in the aftermath of a car crash, and in so doing establishes its primary structural principle: the edit as ellipsis. Every cut in any film necessarily deletes something and moves ...

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A companion piece to the straight camp of 2005’s Bubble, Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded portrait of the greatest act of gay vanity in the modern era offers a wealth of riches: Rob Lowe’s face, ...

To fully appreciate the pleasures of Pascal Chaumeil’s debut feature, Heartbreaker, it helps to know—and love—Dirty Dancing.The addictive 1987 hit guides every “step” of the prospective lovebirds’ ...

“We are now in the reality of the Entity.” This is the warning intoned several times in the latest installment of the Mission: Impossible series, The Final Reckoning. A sinister A.I. program, the ...

Receiving the Best Actress award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, Juliette Binoche held up a sign bearing the name of Kiarostami’s frequent ...

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An intriguing, combustible cocktail of deceptive calm and nervous energy, Ben Foster has been someone to keep an eye on after stealing not one but three movies in 2007 (Alpha Dog, 30 Days of Night, ...

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