Twenty years later, it’s fair to argue that Elf is the last great Christmas movie. This Jon Favreau classic, which also marked a significant turning point in Will Ferrell’s career, came out during a holiday season that was awash in memorable Yuletide flicks, with adult-skewing audiences getting to spike their
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This spoiler-free review is based on the three episodes made available to preview. Between Christmas specials and twinkly festive ads, TV can get cloying at this time of year. What’s needed to cut through the Baileys truffle eggnog of it all is a show from the ice-cold ‘Send a Team
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“She was real great at being an unemployed actress.” A moment of reflection, uttered by a husband in the middle of a mushroom-induced therapy session run by his wife’s best friend after losing track of a talking hat. Make sense? Good. Then you’re ready for Hanky Panky, the new indie
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“I’m not saying the film is perfect, but I’m much more happy with Part Two than I was with Part One,” says Dune director Denis Villeneuve. “Dune director Denis Villeneuve says the upcoming sequel is “much better” than the first film, which won six Oscars after it was released in
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At a superficial glance, Concrete Utopia seems like an unusual choice to be South Korea’s official submission for Best International Film at this year’s Academy Awards. The first feature in seven years from director Um Tae-hwa (Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned), it’s a bloody dystopian thriller that chronicles the