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Whitney Houston

movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Jul 04

Fri, Jul 06, 2018
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Evangeline Lilly is a tiny superhero; Lex Scott Davis protests the Purge; Laura Collado, Erica Xia-Hou, and Morgen Culver write stories about men; more…

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Jul 04

Fri, Jul 06, 2018
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Lex Scott Davis protests the Purge, Elle Fanning invents science fiction, Whitney Houston is eulogized in documentary form, and more…

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Whitney documentary review: an 80s icon contemplated, venerated, mourned

Tue, Jul 03, 2018
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Deeply moving, truly tragic; a biography with a keenly journalistic but hugely sympathetic eye. Powerful compassion and a get-up-and-dance deployment of Houston’s music may well bring her a new generation of fans.

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Sparkle (trailer)

Fri, Apr 27, 2012
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Really? Sparkle? You’d think they want to avoid anything that might remind us of Glitter…

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Sacha Baron Cohen responds — ingeniously — in character to his booting from the Oscars (and other adventures in social networking)

Sat, Feb 25, 2012
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is our children learning cinema etiquette? (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Feb 17, 2012
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resist the corporatization of love and romance… (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Feb 15, 2012
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Michael Bay is rebooting Transformers (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Feb 14, 2012
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