Movies

Daniel Collins is one subject in the elliptical documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening.

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'Hale County This Morning, This Evening' Is A Fascinating And Frustrating Collage

6:38pm September 13, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

First-time filmmaker RaMell Ross' camera captures fleeting moments in the lives of two black young men in rural Alabama, and refuses to supply us with context. We grow to care about them anyway.

"'Hit Any Key?' Where's the 'any' key?" — The remorseless alien killing machine should probably just turn the console off and on again in The Predator.

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After A Promising Start, 'The Predator' Loses The Scent

6:37pm September 13, 2018

by Chris Klimek

Director/co-writer Shane Black's attempt to infuse snappy dialogue and dark humor into the alien-hunter franchise works until it, suddenly, doesn't. Blame a mess of a script and cheap-looking effects.

Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) presides over a humorless script in The Children Act.

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In The Wan, Airless 'The Children Act,' A Judge Shows Poor Judgment

5:00pm September 13, 2018

by Ella Taylor

Emma Thompson stars as a British High Court judge who becomes embroiled in the life of a teenager brought before her, for reasons about which "it's hard to tell and harder to care."

Sean Penn plays a veteran astronaut who aspires to go to Mars in the Hulu series The First.

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'The First' Is A Human Mission To Mars, With A Focus On The Humans

12:43pm September 13, 2018

by David Bianculli

Hulu's new series features Sean Penn as a veteran astronaut facing the personal sacrifice of deep space travel. Critic David Bianculli says the characters are explored just as deeply as outer space.

#MeToo Reckoning Is Reshaping How Sex Scenes Are Negotiated And Filmed In Hollywood

5:02pm September 11, 2018

The #MeToo movement has forced Hollywood to rethink how it deals with sex scenes. Actors are searching for better protections and more control before and after a scene is shot.

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Bel Powley and Jesse Eisenberg appeared in Jason Reitman's live read of The Breakfast Club on Sunday night in Toronto.

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Rediscovering 'The Breakfast Club' With ... Jesse Eisenberg?

6:29am September 10, 2018

by Linda Holmes

Director Jason Reitman staged his annual live reading of a film script at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday night. Aaron Paul, Jesse Eisenberg and Christina Hendricks stepped in.

In the documentary Swiped, filmmaker Nancy Jo Sales investigates how dating apps have created unintended consequences in actual relationships.

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A Documentary Swipes Left On Dating Apps

5:56pm September 09, 2018

by Michel Martin

Journalist Nancy Jo Sales investigates the impact of online dating tech on offline culture in her first film Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age. Predictably, some of her findings are pretty bleak.

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Female Breakout 'Captain Marvel' Screenwriter Is Disrupting The Superheroine Trope

10:34am September 09, 2018

by Emma Bowman

Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who wrote Marvel's first female-led film, doesn't want to be a rarity in Hollywood. To advance these dynamic roles, her suggestion is simple: Hire more women.

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Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Brett Kavanaugh To Be Supreme Court Justice

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4:09pm September 07, 2018

An anonymous affair.

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'Fresh Air' Remembers Film Star Burt Reynolds

1:32pm September 07, 2018

by Terry Gross

Reynolds, who died Thursday, appeared in scores of films, including Deliverance and Boogie Nights. He spoke to Terry Gross in 1994 about growing up the son of a sheriff in a small Florida town.

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