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22 Films About Rebellion, Protests & Civil Unrest

June 4, 2020 1:43 pm

America is not okay. Maybe America has never been okay. Maybe certain members of our society are just now starting to realize this fact. In any case, the Band-Aid of civility has been ripped from our flesh,...

52 Movies Directed By Women In 2017 That You Should Know

Lena Wilson

January 17, 2018 12:09 pm

Features, News

If you took a shot every time you read “Hollywood has a misogyny problem” in 2017, you would be long dead. That doesn’t mean it’s not a point worth belaboring — on the contrary, if the past year of entertainmen...

Dane DeHaan in A Cure for Wellness (2016)

Oktay Ege Kozak’s Top 10 Films Of 2017

Kevin Jagernauth

December 29, 2017 12:59 pm

News

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As far as our sociopolitical environment is concerned, 2017 has been a dumpster fire inside a locked building full of orphans. But as we have witnessed with the tumultuous period of the 1970s, such times usuall...

‘Detroit’ Trailer: Kathryn Bigelow & Annapurna Take Aim At Oscar Season

Jordan Ruimy

November 6, 2017 9:08 am

News, Trailers

In the last 10 years, Kathryn Bigelow has set a gold standard for us to judge her work by. Sure, her latest, “Detroit,” might not have deserved to belong next to landmarks such as “The Hurt Locker,” and “Ze...

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There Are No Frontrunners Yet, So Here’s Some Unsolicited Oscar Advice For Hollywood

Gregory Ellwood

September 14, 2017 12:22 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Features, News

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Venice? Check. Telluride? Check. TIFF? Pretty much, check. The three major film festivals that traditionally mark the start of Oscar season are officially over (TIFF runs until the weekend, but all the major pr...

The Best Movies Of Summer 2017

Jordan Ruimy

September 3, 2017 1:51 pm

Features, News

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We're right on top of things calendar-wise, right?... A little late to the party, but, it's become a recurrent trend every summer for journalists to look back at the movies that were released and, well, comp...

John Boyega On ‘Detroit,’ Producing ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ And That ‘Last Jedi’ Break [Podcast]

Gregory Ellwood

August 8, 2017 10:43 am

Awards Campaign, News, Podcasts

Honestly, the most surprising thing I learned in my interview with John Boyega wasn't that it took three weeks to film the most harrowing sequence in Kathryn Bigelow's "Detroit" or that he has a producer credit...

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The Essentials: The Films Of Kathryn Bigelow

The Playlist Staff

August 2, 2017 12:17 pm

Features, News

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“I like high impact movies.” And then some. Kathryn Bigelow was here all along. She’d directed the ‘90s pop action masterpiece “Point Break,” given us the Western horror hybrid “Near Dark” and dazzled audien...

12 Movies To See In August

Ally Johnson

August 1, 2017 11:41 am

Features, News

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In case you haven't been paying much attention, the summer 2017 season has been a rather strong one. Sure, we still had to content with the poorly conceived sequel here and there, but despite "The Emoji Movie" ...

‘Dunkirk’ Stays On Top, ‘Emoji Movie’ Overcomes Terrible Reviews & ‘Atomic Blonde’ Not Quite Nuclear [Box Office]

Kevin Jagernauth

July 30, 2017 12:32 pm

Box Office, News

It's Christopher Nolan's birthday, and the fussy director has a nice present waiting for him when he reads the box office news with his morning cup of tea. "Dunkirk" has taken the top spot at the box office ...

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