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Hulu’s “Chad Powers” Wastes Talents of Glen Powell | TV/Streaming

The new Hulu series “Chad Powers” combines the “over-the-hill athlete makes a comeback” movie and the “person wears prosthetic makeup to pretend to

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Josh Larsen on the Return of Cinema Interruptus | MZS

For many years, Roger Ebert hosted an annual event at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder, Colorado, called Cinema Interruptus. It was

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Life is Like a Piano: Tom Lehrer (1928-2025) | Tributes

The great comedic songwriter and performer Tom Lehrer passed away at 97 yesterday, outliving one of the writers credited with penning the “advance”

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Enjoy Every Second: Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky on “Final Destination Bloodlines” | Interviews

The “Final Destination” series had been dormant for fourteen years when its home studio, Warner Bros. Discovery, decided to bring it back with

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SXSW Film Festival 2025: Fu*cktoys, $Positions, Idiotka | Festivals & Awards

Annapurna Sriram’s feature debut “Fu*cktoys,” about a sex worker earning a living while undoing a curse, is farce, psychodrama, theological inquiry, softcore, satire,

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Life, the Movie: Why Documentary Filmmaking Should Return to, You Know, Documenting Stuff | MZS

I was watching a documentary the other night—I’m not going to say which one here, because it was good and intelligent overall, and

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Appreciating the Brushstrokes: Pre-Computer Animation and the Human Touch | Features

One era’s trash is another era’s treasure. This becomes truer the deeper we get into the era of computers and automated, technology-assisted production.

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Apocalypse Then: Godzilla Minus One Minus Color | Features

“Godzilla Minus One” was already one of the best Godzilla movies, for the way it used the kaiju movie template to tell a

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His Own Way: John Amos (1940-2024) | MZS

John Amos was a pioneer in more ways than one. A tall, broad-shouldered man with a barrel chest, a winning smile, and an

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In the Ring: James Madio and Steve Loff on “The Featherweight” | MZS

Set in 1964 and 1965, “The Featherweight” is a stylistically daring movie about an aging real-life boxer, Willie Pep (James Madio), who held

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