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Making it up as you go along
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2020 mega banter, ranking the streamers
HollywoodThe pandemic pummeled production. WarnerMedia started a war with its windows-shattering sneak attack. And Quibi, we hardly knew you.
The beguiling charms of "Our Friend"
HollywoodFlawlessly acted by Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck and Jason Segel, and beautifully directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, this movie about friendship and cancer--in that order--is funny…
Eugene Ashe: ‘Sylvie’s Love’
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Society as a rooster coop
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George Clooney and Grant Heslov on ‘The Midnight Sky’
HollywoodGeorge Clooney and his long-time producing partner Grant Heslov talk about their new movie “The Midnight Sky,” a post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama, now on Netflix.
Poppies and skulls commingle in fantastical airbrushed paintings
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