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Streaming websites bet big on Chinese cinema

WITH diverse and creative productions coming into play, Chinese cinema continues to thrive. Streaming websites have also been involved in film production and distribution, as well as the emergence of ...

April 23, 2022, Saturday

Big expectations for debut of latest Spider-Man installment

With great power comes great responsibility — and so Spider-Man is being called upon to save Hollywood and movie theaters once again, with analysts eyeing the pandemic era’s first potential billion-dollar-grossing ...

December 26, 2021, Sunday

Family bonds sorely tested over Thanksgiving dinner

Laughter and tears. Fun and disappointment. Affection and insults. Anxieties, hostilities, too much food, too much alcohol. In other words: Thanksgiving. This year, Thanksgiving stories in the news ...

December 5, 2021, Sunday

Disney’s‘Encanto’flips the typical children’s script

MIRABEL is extraordinary, in that when it comes to her family, she is totally normal. That’s the set-up for Disney’s absolutely charming new animated musical “Encanto,” which flips the typical children’s ...

December 5, 2021, Sunday

Princess Diana biopic’s cast outshines the story

The casting, with Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, is brilliant, and the ending, in a top-down convertible, is sublime. So why is the rest of Pablo Larraín’s “Spencer” such a hollow exercise in high ...

November 14, 2021, Sunday

Man’s love for his dog in post-apocalyptic world

TOM Hanks doesn’t need a human or even a sentient acting partner to make a film or a scene sing. Think Wilson the volleyball, Hooch and even that laptop from “You’ve Got Mail.” So it’s not at all surprising ...

November 14, 2021, Sunday

‘The French Dispatch’ is a film of 4 quirky stories

THERE’S a line that Bill Murray’s Harold Ross-like character Arthur Howitzer Jr, the editor of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, says a few times in Wes Anderson’s new movie that ...

October 31, 2021, Sunday

Denis Villeneuve’s doom-laden, dynamite ‘Dune’

A cool wind sweeps through the sands of “Dune,” Denis Villeneuve’s chilly, majestic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 science-fiction novel. Hot as it may be on Arrakis, the desert planet that ...

October 31, 2021, Sunday

Tribute to a short-lived, idiosyncratic band

AS a young man starting college, director Todd Haynes fell immediately for the Velvet Underground — the band which, musician Brian Eno famously said, didn’t sell many records, but everyone who bought ...

October 24, 2021, Sunday

A feral and wildly original shock to the system

“Titane” is a shock to the system. Unbound by genre, decency or form, French writer-director Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or recipient is pulsating and passionately defiant cinema that nearly defies explanation. ...

October 24, 2021, Sunday



 

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