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On November 8, 2018, the town of Paradise, California, was destroyed by the deadliest fire in the state’s history, razing countless homes and businesses and displacing 50,000 citizens. Rebuilding the place was an agonizing feat of...

“I hate exposition,” writer/director/actress Amy Seimetz said in a 2013 interview with Filmmaker Magazine. This hatred is on display in her first full feature, “Sun Don’t Shine,” where a nightmarish scenario is presented with an almost...

“It’s a hard life on easy streetJust white painted picket fences far as you can seeAnd if you think we live in the land of the freeYou should try to be, oh, black like me” —excerpt from...

Disney’s reboot of Jim Henson’s beloved creation in “Muppets Now” is going to be compared to the classic films and TV show, and in that sense it will come up a little short. However, I’d be lying...

“Host,” a new horror movie about a haunted Zoom meeting, is decent, as far as high-concept genre exercises go. It’s only 56 minutes long, features some cool practical stuntwork thanks to the team at Lucky 13...

Tomasz (Maciej Musialowski) has what could politely be called gray ethical boundaries. He’s introduced facing down the faculty at the law school he attends, who have caught him plagiarizing and are expelling him. In the next...

“The Fight” follows lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union as they challenge four Trump administration initiatives that raise issues of inequality: separating families seeking legal immigration, the denial of abortion rights for an undocumented minor...

Modern superhero cinema begins with “Superman,” so it’s only fitting that it would kick off with its own version of the Big Bang. It has a momentous quality that somehow never came across as heavy or self-involved. Like...

They killed John Saxon again?  That was my first thought upon learning that Saxon (birth name: Carmine Orrico) died from pneumonia over the weekend in his Murfreesboro, Tennessee home. You might remember Saxon, a Stella Adler-trained...

The name of the annual Women Rocking Hollywood panel used to feel more hope than reality, with dismal statistics that barely showed any progress year after year. That has changed now, thanks to #MeToo and Ava DuVernay....