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Gun Reform Needs Help From Hollywood (Guest Blog)
“It’s not enough for the Hollywood community to advocate for positive and bloodless scripts, we need to implore our movie stars to take action,” Aviva Kempner says
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Buy French for the Holidays in Tribute to the Victims of Paris Terror Attacks (Guest Blog)
Support France with shopping, French films and “cap the evening off with a French wine or champagne,” Aviva Kempner says
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YouTube Red Launch: 4 Lessons for Companies Looking to Break Into SVOD (Guest Blog)
The recent introduction of YouTube’s subscription video service exposes pitfalls and opportunities for those lacking Google’s resources (i.e., everyone)
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‘Macbeth’ Review: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard Make Shakespeare Majestically Raw
Fassbender proves his genius for combative malevolence once again in an exciting new vision of the Scottish play
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How a 1993 Craig T. Nelson TV Movie Predicted the Climate Change Debate
As politicians meet in Paris for COP21, Hollywood asks why more films about global warming haven’t been greenlit since CBS’ “The Fire Next Time”
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‘The Letters’ Review: Mother Teresa Biopic Makes Unconvincing Case for Sainthood
Juliet Stevenson stars in a dramatically comatose feature that feels like Sunday school homework
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‘#Horror’ Review: Chloe Sevigny Gets Embroiled in Cyber-Bullying That Escalates
Actress and designer-turned-director Tara Subkoff channels teenage aggression and wrings her hands over social-media sadism in moody, visually striking genre film
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‘The Good Dinosaur’ Review: Pixar’s Prehistoric Tale Improves as It Evolves
After a schmaltzy start, this Jurassic coming-of-age story blossoms into a tale as subtle, funny and moving as anything the studio has ever made
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‘The Big Short’ AFI Review: Brad Pitt and Christian Bale Get Bullish in Financial-Crisis Comedy
Director Adam McKay gets serious with an inventive and intellectual condemnation of Wall Street
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‘Concussion’ AFI Review: Will Smith Stars in Timely But Dreary Drama
For all its acknowledgements of football’s beauty, the film makes it unequivocal that going pro might mean an early death
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‘Love’ Review: Gaspar Noe’s Sexually Explicit Romance Stays Too Long in the Sack
This gorgeously shot and conceived picture can’t help flagging the longer it goes on
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‘Miss You Already’ Review: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette Elevate Cancer Drama
Actresses are hilarious and heart-breaking as friends contending with lady parts that fail them
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‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict’ Review: Portrait of an Influential Collector Needs More Depth
Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s doc is comprehensive, yet never gets to the core of her subject
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‘CodeGirl’ Review: Feminism – There’s an App for That in This Disappointing Doc
Documentarian Lesley Chilcott has good intentions, but not enough tension or well-developed characters to sustain a film
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From ‘Bridge of Spies’ to ‘Suffragette’: Historical Fall Movies That Could Be Ripped From Today’s Headlines (Guest Blog)
“As Americans go to the movies in the coming weeks they cannot help but be struck by how much art is imitating life,” Aviva Kempner says
