Director Chad Stahelski has a John Wick-esque hunger for beating a challenge, starting with his days as a stuntman (later…
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“Hurt people hurt people,” often used in the context of empathy or forgiveness, is a valid statement about how patterns…
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Netflix’s newest spy thriller “The Night Agent” reminded me of ‘90s and ‘00s projects like “In the Line of Fire”…
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Dynamic action filmmaking does a lot of heavy lifting in the otherwise lumpy Vietnamese beat-em-up “Furies,” a barely related prequel…
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Nina Yang Bongiovi to Receive the Variety Creative Impact Award at the 2023 Sun Valley Film Festival
Producer Nina Yang Bongiovi, the BAFTA-nominated producer of such acclaimed films as Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station,” Boots Riley’s “Sorry to…
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Immediately following the 2pm matinee performance this Sunday, March 26th, of the Lyric Opera’s eagerly awaited trio of new American…
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After two long years, “Succession” is finally back. The prestige drama’s previous season promised war between the Roy siblings and…
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Documentaries have a helluva war to wage against algorithm-fed attention spans, and the glut of documentaries in the streaming era. It’s…
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“Rabbit Hole,” Kiefer Sutherland’s new spy show on Paramount+, has about 24 twists per episode. At one point at the…
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Matt writes: The 95th Academy Awards were a refreshing comeback for the telecast, which reached an all-time low in 2022.…
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