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loaded question: have apocalyptic movies lulled us into a false sense of security about climate change?

Mon, Feb 28, 2022
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What would human civilization look like after a billions-dead catastrophe? “End of the world” movies almost universally fail to confront that. Do we need to do better?

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Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer and A Crime on the Bayou documentaries review: Black history matters

Fri, Jun 18, 2021
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Two new documentaries — one a shrewdly incisive work of journalism, the other a delicately elegant tale of injustice and friendship — tell all-but-forgotten histories of Black America. Of America.

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curated: how we look at art… and how we think about looking at art

Sun, May 17, 2020
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I suspect these essays hit me hard because how we see and think about the world is changing rapidly and dramatically as everything pauses during the coronavirus pandemic…

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curated: the roles typecast actors would prefer to play

Thu, Mar 05, 2020
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“We hope that these photos encourage viewers to reflect on the way that stereotypes persist in mass culture….”

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The Front Runner movie review: when politics turned tabloid (LFF 2018)

Tue, Nov 06, 2018
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Snappy Sorkin-esque banter, 80s nostalgia, and Hugh Jackman in a bad wig yet still hot as hell. But also an enraging, ironic look at how a reality-TV resume ended up becoming a legit qualification for the American presidency.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jan 19

Fri, Jan 19, 2018
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Women fall for aliens, older men, and the mad power of running a major newspaper.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jan 12 (updated)

Fri, Jan 12, 2018
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Taraji P. Henson and Meryl Streep are doing men’s work in wide release, with small films from Europe, the Middle East, and South America highlighting women in limited release.

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The Post movie review: printing truth to power

Fri, Dec 29, 2017
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Crackles with life and energy, depicting a grand adventure in journalism from almost half a century ago with vigor, suspense, and an urgent relevance for today.

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curated: LA, NYC, Boston and Nat’l film critics boycott Disney films in year-end awards

Tue, Nov 07, 2017
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The relationship between the studios and critics has always been a contentious one, for obvious reasons, but what might have been previously called a cold war has hotted up this year…

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Kill the Messenger movie review: all the news that’s fit to quash

Fri, Mar 06, 2015
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A passionate and intense drama — fueled by a fierce Jeremy Renner — that furiously underscores the problem of lickspittle corporate “journalism.”

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