Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl explores everything from the tragicomedy of survival to the Black feminist refusals ...

This thorny question is really an ethical one. Who is film piracy harming? What is it destroying? And are those entities ones that you care about? Anyone could spend hours writing through the ...

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The weather was pleasant but the zeitgeist damp on the last day of the 75th Berlinale, as Germans voted in the federal election. More than 20 percent of the votes cast were for Alternative for Germany ...

At that performance, director Robert Rossen was impressed, and later cast Hackman in a small role in LILITH with Warren Beatty. Three years later, Beatty remembered Hackman and cast him in BONNIE AND ...

I remember seeing This Is My Land (2006), my introduction to the work of Ben Rivers, and being knocked out to find that such a modest film could so completely summon another world. Ramshackle yet ...

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A year after delivering, in Beast, one of the few recent portrayals deserving of the term “fearless,” Jessie Buckley ecstatically announces herself as neither an actress who can carry a tune nor a ...

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