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Wonder Park represents at least one milestone: Here, finally, is a computer-animated movie where the human characters…
What Five Feet Apart has going for it is Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse. And that’s no small…
Steven Soderbergh’s initial idea for Sex, Lies, And Videotape, as jotted down in his journal, was a mere eight words…
A man and a horse lay sprawled on the ground. Dust swirls around them. One has a knee in his back. A tranquilizer…
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Do kids today still know Nancy Drew, the prodigious teenage detective who’s been skulking around novels, occasional…
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