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Actor Michael Murphy is perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Robert Altman, which practically...
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Lady Gaga will have her acting face on — and only her acting face — when American Horror...
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“American Horror Story” will wrap up its sixth season “Roanoke” in the next few weeks, but creator Ryan Murphy is already looking ahead to...
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Did you get misty-eyed over the last audition of American Idol‘s farewell season? RelatedRatings:...
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Kevin B. Lee’s Transformers: The Premake and Khalik Allah’s Field Niggas are radically...
View ArticleWatch: $5.15/Hr., Richard Linklater’s Rejected HBO Pilot From 2004
HBO is normally very serious about making sure no commissioned and rejected pilots ever make it into...
View ArticleVideo: Nashville's Connie Britton and Charles Esten Talk Love, 'Life...
Like the best country songs, Charles Esten‘s theory on why Nashville‘s Rayna-Deacon love story...
View ArticleWatch The First Trailer For Michael Bay-Produced 1960s-Set Horror Prequel...
It might be a particularly dumb piece of material to base a movie on — the...
View ArticleIn Bizarre Series of Tweets, Don Cheadle Claims Donald Trump Used Racist Slur...
In a bizarre Twitter rant on Sunday, actor Don Cheadle, an outspoken critic of President Donald...
View ArticleRyan Murphy Admits to 'Infighting' on the Glee Set: 'We All Got Too Personal'
Much has been said about Glee‘s behind-the-scenes drama recently — thanks largely to...
View ArticleNew ‘Star Wars’ Character: Who’s the Mystery Woman on the Cover of ‘Shattered...
At this point, every Star Wars reveal just seems to raise more questions....
View ArticleKathy Bates Joins ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ Cast
Kathy Bates, who made her American Horror Story debut in Coven, is the latest...
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View ArticleFilm Writing on the Spam Internet: A Hasty Categorization
We were deep in production on our summer issue last week, so I didn’t have much time to think...
View ArticleSarah Paulson Joins Ryan Murphy’s ‘America Horror Story: Hotel’
Sarah Paulson is the latest American Horror Story alum welcomed back to the cast for the...
View Article‘American Horror Story’: ‘Murder House’ to Meet ‘Coven’ in Crossover Season,...
“American Horror Story” is no stranger to throwing in callbacks to previous seasons, seemingly tying all of its installments together in a big, bizarre...
View ArticleSix Questions for David Wain About Wet Hot American Summer and They Came...
Moving with shark-like restlessness between webseries, TV and film, the prolifically talented David...
View Article‘Aloft’ Trailer: Cillian Murphy Searches for Jennifer Connelly
The film Aloft, from director Claudia Llosa, is a multi-generational...
View ArticleTVLine Items: Room Star on Last Man, Scream Queens Additions and More
Now that he’s spent time in Room, Jacob Tremblay‘s next gig will be a walk in the park....
View Article‘American Horror Story: Hotel’: New Details on Lady Gaga’s Seductive Bloodsucker
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View ArticleNyff Critics’ Notebook: Carol and The Assassin
At no point in Todd Haynes’ Carol is the word “lesbian” heard — nor...
View ArticleAdam Driver and Michael Palin Will Star in Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Man Who...
Terry Gilliam is like the human punching bag of filmmakers. No matter how many hits...
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While in Hollywood, August is the month when the industry slows down a bit before...
View ArticleTiff Critic’s Notebook 7: The Dreamed Path + Wavelengths
I had the truly rare advantage of a loose enough schedule to accommodate seeing all four of the...
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The Sky Trembles and The Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes are Not Brothers (you can memorize the title after...
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American Horror Story: Hotel has added another top-notch actor to the cast this...
View ArticleHappy Hour, The Best 317 Minutes of New Directors/New Films 2016
Bad news first: Happy Hour is pretty much a must-see. Given the option of watching 5+ hours on a weekend...
View ArticleTrue/False 2015: Rules of the Game, Spartacus & Cassandra and I Am The People
For once my favorite movie of True/False 2015 was an honest-to-goodness crowdpleaser, a counterintuitively funny film on a grim...
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It wouldn’t be American Horror Story without some shocking reveals, and so far...
View ArticleTV Trailers: First ‘American Crime Story’ Teaser, More ‘American Horror...
FX is doubling down on Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk this TV season. Next month...
View ArticleWatch: Eduardo Williams’ Remarkable Short Could See a Puma
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Miguel Gomes — the wildly talented director of Tabu and Our...
View ArticleA Worthy Kickstarter to Show the Shuttered Beijing Independent Film...
With 20 days to go, the Kickstarter launched by producer/distributor Karin Chien, critic/curator Shelly...
View ArticleNew York Film Festival 2015 Announces Its Main Slate
Straight from the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s admirably thorough press release, here’s the main...
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Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s De Palma is a fans-only interview session with the director....
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Ifp, Filmmaker‘s parent organization, has announced their expansion to support television,...
View ArticleTrue/False 2015 Shorts: Former Models, The Woolworths Choir of 1979, My Gal,...
Outside the avant-garde world, shorts are rarely granted extended critical writing —...
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Following the announcement of this year’s Tiff Gala and Special Presentations lineups, we now have titles from many...
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Upon its Cannes premiere and ever since, Stéphane Lafleur’s Tu dors Nicole (You’re Sleeping Nicole) was...
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Like a lot of people, I’ve been hypnotized the past few weeks by Andrew Jarecki’s six-part...
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During his career, George Cukor was often referred to as a “women’s director” for his facility...
View ArticlePay Tribute to Bankrupt Columbia House with The Target Shoots First
Given the news that Columbia House — the mail-order CD club that famously promised eight CDs for a...
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Decried as an offensive trivialization of trans reassignment surgery by GLAAD as soon its premise was announced,...
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There’s a lengthy sequence, something like the climax of Jacques Rivette’s 1969 L’Amour fou,...
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Laurent Bécue-Renard’s Of Men and War is an immersive look at group therapy conducted at a...
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A word of caution to any American Horror Story: Hotel guests who happen to tour the beautiful-yet-creepy Murder House of Season 1: Pay no attention to the attractive man in the second-floor window… or...
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As Porky Pig so famously put it, “Th-th-th-th-th-that’s all folks!” Ok, not...
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Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s feature debut, 2011’s Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, examined the...
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