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How Award-Winning Actor Brian Cox’s Shakespearean Roots Led To ‘The War of the Rohirrim’
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, opening in theaters nationwide on Friday, sets its action 183...
‘Nickel Boys’ Director RaMell Ross On Leveraging the Lyricism Of Imagery To Relay a Lived Experience [PODCAST]
Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys tells a fictionalized account of two young men -- Elwood and Turner --...
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When it premiered at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend, writer/director RaMell Ross's Nickel Boys made a seismic impact upon...
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‘Armand’ Filmmaker Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, Star Renate Reinsve On Their Bold New Film, Norway’s Oscar Entry [VIDEO]
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‘Blitz’ Editor Peter Sciberras on Cutting for Hope and Reality
Acclaimed Editor Peter Sciberras first broke through with David Michod’s Aussie classic, The Rover. From there, Sciberras edited the painfully...
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Oscars 2025: 2025 Golden Globe Film, Critics Week Reactions With Mark Johnson [PODCAST]
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