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December 18, 2015
Alex Shephard
How much money is Star Wars going to make this weekend?
December 17, 2015
Alex Shephard
So what don’t people like about the new Star Wars movie?
December 17, 2015
Michelle Legro
The 2015 Hollywood Blacklist is here, and as usual, the best movies are the ones that haven’t been made.
December 16, 2015
Alex Shephard
Let’s celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday by remembering the worst thing her name has ever been attached to.
December 16, 2015
Alex Shephard
Everything is going to be about Star Wars until at least Christmas. Or maybe the New Year. Or maybe forever.
December 16, 2015
Jeet Heer
The story of a boy, a girl, and a universe ... Star Wars?!?
December 16, 2015
Will Leitch
The Force Awakens: The Gang’s All Here!
And just like that we're back in the world of the first three ‘Star Wars’ films—as if nothing happened along the way.
December 15, 2015
Jeet Heer
Conservatives Are Rewriting Star Wars as a Battle Against Terrorism
Is Luke Skywalker a jihadi?
December 15, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
The trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a cautionary tale about invasive species.
December 14, 2015
Alex Shephard
The trailer for the new Star Trek movie seems tailor-made to annoy the franchise’s hardcore fans.
December 14, 2015
Alex Shephard
Whale fail: In the Heart of the Sea, Ron Howard’s epic Moby-Dick origin story, sinks at the box office.
December 14, 2015
Alex Shephard
Watch the trailer for the Independence Day sequel.
December 11, 2015
Tom Rice
How the Ku Klux Klan Used Cinema to Become a Force in America
December 11, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Hollywood Chases the White Whale
‘In the Heart of the Sea’ may be based on a true story, but it remains obsessed with ‘Moby-Dick.’
December 10, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Year in Superheroes
They dominated film, television, and literature—and there's no end to the hold they have on the entertainment industry.
December 9, 2015
Alex Shephard
Watch the first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG.
December 7, 2015
Jason Guriel
Orson Welles’s Forgotten Christmas Classic
In ‘Mr. Arkadin,’ Welles wears a ghoulish Santa mask to a near-orgiastic holiday party.
December 4, 2015
Michelle Legro
Barbra Streisand will direct a biopic about Catherine the Great, a woman she hardly identifies with.
December 3, 2015
Mollie Gregory
Put The Girl in Danger!
The radical courage of silent movie stuntwomen.
December 2, 2015
Elaine Teng
You might want to go with Carol if you want to win your Oscar pool.

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