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Feminism freezes over in 'Huntsman' sequel

Thursday, 5 May 2016, 14:01 Last update: about 11 years ago

"The Huntsman: Winter's War" is one of the more bizarre sequels in recent memory. If modern movies are going to strip every side story out of every superhero universe and beyond, fairy tales should be...

In Key & Peele's 'Keanu,' the true gangster has paws

Wednesday, 4 May 2016, 14:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

If you dropped a cute kitten into Michael Mann's "Heat," would Robert De Niro have gone all soft and goo-goo eyed? Might Wesley Snipes' drug empire in "New Jack City" been brought to its knees by a...

Issues of 'Nina' much more than skin-deep

Tuesday, 3 May 2016, 13:58 Last update: about 11 years ago

The questionable casting of Zoe Saldana is only one of the many problems with Cynthia Mort's limp and misjudged Nina Simone biopic "Nina." Little of the High Priestess of Soul's searing clarity of...

You talkin' to me? Cast of 'Taxi Driver' reunites for 40th

Friday, 29 April 2016, 16:09 Last update: about 11 years ago

Robert De Niro bypassed waiting media on the red carpet Thursday night before heading into a TribecaFilm Festival screening of "Taxi Driver" in celebration of the iconic film's 40th...

Watch: Second edition of Valletta Film Festival launched

Friday, 29 April 2016, 12:55 Last update: about 11 years ago

The second edition of the Valletta Film Festival (VFF), organised by the Film Grain Foundation, will take place between the 3 and 11 June 2016. Over forty international films will have...

Uptown and downtown collide at this year's Tribeca fest

Thursday, 28 April 2016, 16:08 Last update: about 11 years ago

At the Tribeca Film Festival, worlds as far apart as Elvis and Nixon, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Justin Bieber, are colliding. Though films remain the center of...

In 'Green Room' a punk band faces the truly hardcore

Thursday, 28 April 2016, 16:07 Last update: about 11 years ago

"Play your early stuff," is the advice given to the punk band The Ain't Rights when their dirt-broke, gas-siphoning tour lands a last-minute gig at an Oregon backwoods roadhouse in Jeremy Saulnier's...

Jon Stewart-produced film gives close-up to Syrian refugees

Thursday, 21 April 2016, 15:45 Last update: about 11 years ago

Before the Syrian refugee crisis spilled across Europe, first-time feature filmmakers Ellen Martinez and Steph Ching were in Jordan's Zaatari Refugee Camp with their cameras. There at the camp...

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