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In an early scene in Hong Kong New Wave pioneer Ann Hui’s historical war drama Our Time Will Come, a Chinese rebel accidentally drops a live grenade in the midd...
Cinematic depiction of performance art is a rich tradition, stretching back to the ‘60s as a form of documentation for what are, by design, live works. This lin...
The summer studio comedy drought continues with The House. Although occasionally funny, it’s a minor entry into the canon of Will Ferrell’s usual brand of humor...
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Full disclosure: I have seen neither Despicable Me nor Despicable Me 2, but the franchise’s third installment kind of makes me want to. Now let me set the recor...
What will future generations make of the way in which dating moved from the world of the corporeal to the digital realm in the 21st century? Will the process of...
Despite the fundamental truth that art is, at the most elemental level, unnecessary to survival, its unequivocal power to reward the soul and imagination proves...
