A flying ace, rampaging dinosaurs, Marvel, DC, Minions and battling blue aliens on a distant planet were among the highlights of 2022 for the Hollywood studios at the global and international box office. Still, it was yet another year of transition, with worldwide grosses reaching an estimated $26B — a 27% increase on 2021 but
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News Muna Announce 2023 North American Tour The trio has headlining dates in between slots opening for Taylor Swift and Lorde By Matthew Ismael Ruiz January 10, 2023 Facebook Twitter Muna, photo by Isaac Schneider Facebook Twitter Muna has announced a string of headlining 2023 tour dates, squeezed in between stints opening for Taylor Swift
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James Cameron’s track record as a filmmaker is unparalleled–see our ranking of all his movies. To have directed one of the Top 10 highest-grossing movies would be quite an achievement, but to have directed 3 of them is an almost unimaginable accomplishment. However, it’s an accomplishment that we can finally say the True Lies director
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News Neutral Milk Hotel Announce Career-Spanning Vinyl Box Set, Share Previously Unreleased Song: Listen The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel features both of the group’s LPs, along with live recordings, alternate takes, unreleased material, and more By Madison Bloom January 10, 2023 Facebook Twitter Photo courtesy of Neutral Milk Hotel Facebook Twitter Neutral Milk
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Karen Cooper, longtime director of New York City’s indie cinema gem Film Forum, says she’s stepping down at a good time, not just for her, but for the business. Despite all the naysayers and after slogging through Covid with the help of federal grants and weathering a slow recovery, Cooper said business is currently pretty
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Self-help has been a booming genre for adults for decades, with books available that can teach us everything from how to boost our self-esteem, overcome addiction, and deal with mental illness to how to actualise our wildest dreams. Adults often buy self-help when we reach a turning point in our lives, or find ourselves in
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A line from Jessica Johns’ haunting, atmospheric and beautiful debut novel, Bad Cree, has been tumbling around in my head since I set the book down. “That’s the thing about the [prairie]. . . . It’ll tell you exactly what it’s doing and when, you just have to listen.” Johns’ protagonist, a young Cree woman
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Hide the rabbits.  The upcoming Paramount+ series Fatal Attraction—starring Lizzy Caplan, Joshua Jackson and Amanda Peet—will drop its first two episodes April 30, the streamer announced Jan. 9.  Fatal Attraction is described by Paramount+ as “a deep-dive reimagining” of the classic 1987 thriller starring Glenn Close, Michael Douglas and Anne Archer in the roles now played by
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News Watch Dry Cleaning Perform “Hot Penny Day” on Fallon The English post-punk band’s latest album, Stumpwork, arrived last fall By Nina Corcoran January 10, 2023 Facebook Twitter Dry Cleaning on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, January 2023 (Todd Owyoung/NBC) Facebook Twitter Dry Cleaning were the musical guest on an episode of The Tonight
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Known for his novels exploring the wintry, rural lands of the Northeast including Sweet Hereafter and Affliction, as well as his award-winning work Cloudsplitter, which followed the life of abolitionist John Brown, author Russell Banks was considered by many to follow in the footsteps of other American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman.
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To remember is not just to recall a thing. Remembering can be a way of putting things back together, in the way that dis-membering is to take them apart. Kai Thomas’ stellar novel, In the Upper Country, is all about this sort of re-membering. It’s inspired by the true stories of formerly enslaved and freeborn
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In a major shift one of the nation’s premier arthouses, Karen Cooper will be exiting as director on June 30 after 50 years running the Film Forum in New York City. Deputy Director Sonya Chung will assume the role. Cooper has led the nonprofit cinema since its first iteration in 1972 as a 50-seat loft
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