If you met Liam Neeson, would you ever forget him? No? Neither did this horse. While at the New York Film Festival recently, Neeson marveled at how the animal who pulls his character’s wagon in the upcoming Coen brothers Western “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
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In its 15th year, festival honors independent films and filmmakers with screenings, parties and awards
The curtain opens on BendFilm Thursday. Are you ready? Over the course of the next four days, the 15th annual independent film festival will shine a spotlight on short and full-length independent documentaries and narrative films, screening for audiences a gaggle of new films and
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First moon walk retold with harrowing, unadorned authenticity
Ryan Gosling does his best to dial down his star power in “First Man,” in which he plays astronaut Neil Armstrong with unsmiling reticence and stoicism. Based on James R. Hansen’s biography of the same name, this absorbing, meticulously detailed chronicle of Armstrong’s career —
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An electric and shatteringly powerful showbiz fable
Every once in a great while, you experience a movie moment so beautiful and so exhilarating, it truly does take your breath away and maybe brings a tear to your eye. In Bradley Cooper’s electric and shatteringly powerful “A Star Is Born,” such a moment
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For years, putting feisty comic Kevin Hart across from any movie star would automatically light a fire underneath an otherwise middling comedy. He was the magic ingredient, the spice that would enliven anything. But recently, Hart has been usurped as the secret sauce in any
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The cogs never quite fit together in this steampunk fantasy
Witches are so 2017. Make way for warlocks, aka “boy witches,” as defined by the intrepid young Lewis (Owen Vaccaro), the boy hero of “The House with a Clock in Its Walls.” The adaptation of John Bellairs’ 1973 young adult fantasy novel, directed by Eli
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Comedy director Paul Feig tries a thriller on for size with the juicy “A Simple Favor,” a suburban Connecticut murder mystery that’s “Gone Girl” meets “The Stepford Wives.” Based on the novel by Darcey Bell, written by Jessica Sharzer, the consciously campy “A Simple Favor”
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Swoon-worthy romance a feast for the eyes, emotions
“Crazy Rich Asians” is a crazy big deal. It’s the first big Hollywood studio movie set in the present day featuring an all-Asian cast in 25 years, so there’s a lot riding on Jon M. Chu’s romantic comedy, an adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s novel. The
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It’s been 14 years since the premiere of Brad Bird’s beloved animated superhero film, “The Incredibles,” one of the mega-hit Pixar films that cemented the animation studio’s reputation. Happily, Bird has pulled it off again, in the long-awaited sequel “Incredibles 2,” which is as good,
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