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Movie fans will love these gifts

Lifestyle

Movie fans will love these gifts

The movie buff in your life will appreciate any of these gifts.

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Review: ‘Greener Grass’ is one of the year’s weirdest comedies

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Review: ‘Greener Grass’ is one of the year’s weirdest comedies

Writer-director-stars Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe’s feature debut “Greener Grass” was made to find a cult following; it deserves one.

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‘Joker’ and Roman Polanski win top prizes at the Venice Film Festival

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‘Joker’ and Roman Polanski win top prizes at the Venice Film Festival

Todd Phillips’ reinterpretation of DC Comics’ “Joker” scooped the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, where Roman Polanski’s latest was runner-up.

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Review: Vera Farmiga elevates the silly, sweet dramedy ‘Burn Your Maps’

(L-R)- Jacob Tremblay,Virginia Madsen, Suraj Sharma and Vera Farmiga in a scene from “Burn Your Maps

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Review: Vera Farmiga elevates the silly, sweet dramedy ‘Burn Your Maps’

It’s taken nearly three years for “Burn Your Maps” to receive a perfunctory theatrical release since it premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and it arrives as neither a buried treasure nor a massive folly.

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Review: Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger elevate predictable romance ‘Tell It to the Bees’

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Review: Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger elevate predictable romance ‘Tell It to the Bees’

The most surprising thing about “Tell It to the Bees” doesn’t even happen on camera.

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Michael Jackson’s sexual abuse accusers speak out at ‘Leaving Neverland’ premiere

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Michael Jackson’s sexual abuse accusers speak out at ‘Leaving Neverland’ premiere

The new four-hour documentary “Leaving Neverland,” in which two men accuse late singer Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as children, sent shock waves through the Sundance Film Festival at its premiere here Friday.

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‘Black Panther,’ ‘A Star Is Born’ lead a blockbuster-heavy slate of Producers Guild film award nominees

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‘Black Panther,’ ‘A Star Is Born’ lead a blockbuster-heavy slate of Producers Guild film award nominees

A scattered film awards season continues to take shape as Hollywood’s filmmaking guilds begin to weigh in with their picks for the year’s best.

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Review: ‘Don’t Leave Home’ will make horror fans want to stay in for a modest but creepy throwback

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Review: ‘Don’t Leave Home’ will make horror fans want to stay in for a modest but creepy throwback

Eerie and haunting without ever being outright scary, “Don’t Leave Home” is different enough from current trends in horror to be of at least some interest to hardcore genre buffs.

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Review: Fear the walking undead of studio castoff ‘Patient Zero’

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Review: Fear the walking undead of studio castoff ‘Patient Zero’

Likable actors including Matt Smith (sporting a jarring Midwest American accent) and Natalie Dormer (sounding like she stepped directly off the set of “Game of Thrones”) inject what little life there is in “Patient Zero,” a post-apocalyptic pandemic movie that’s more grade-Z than “World War Z.”

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Review: ‘Blood Fest’ is a gory love letter to horror and its fans

From L to R: Seychelle Gabriel as Sam and Robbie Kay as Dax in the film “Blood Fest,” Credit: Cinedi

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Review: ‘Blood Fest’ is a gory love letter to horror and its fans

Few film genres are sliced and diced as often as horror.