As Clooney stars in 'Jay Kelly', a satisfyingly meta film by Noah Baumbach about an ageing movie star, we look back at his ...

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Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

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Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait. The ...

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Lights, camera, action: film festival season has arrived. Check out a new motion picture or an award-winning documentary at one of these multi-day film festivals coming to town this fall. The March on ...

“If you haven’t got enough brains to agree with me, then keep your mouth shut. From here on in, I’m answering the questions, got it?” —Claire Quimby, Tension (1949) They say a woman’s work is never ...

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