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Arrival

It's called "Arrival." Not "Attack" or "War of the Worlds." In this thought-provoking, conceptually ambitious film, the creatures from another world just...arrive. At twelve points around the globe, huge, monolithic spacecraft that look like flying saucers turned sideways are suddenly just there. What do you do? How do you determine the intentions and capacities for harm from a species of creature with whom you do not have the most fundamental experiences and assumptions in common? Do they...

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Almost Christmas

In "Almost Christmas," Danny Glover plays Walter, a recent widower who spends a lot of time in the kitchen, trying over and over again to replicate his late wife's legendary sweet potato pie. What he wants to replicate, of course, is the time when they were all together, as shown in a heart-tugging, gracefully edited opening credit sequence, with the years melting into each other from 1971 to 2015. A young couple embraces on a mattress on the floor and, as it happens in life, an eye blink later...

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Loving

We don't have to see how they met. We don't have to see how he worked up the courage to ask her out or their first misunderstanding, or watch her try on different outfits before their big date. "Loving," written and directed by Jeff Nichols ("Midnight Special," "Mud") brings us into the story of Richard and Mildred Loving as they have a very short, very simple, but very meaningful conversation. She pauses, and we can see on her face that she does not know how he will react and is perhaps afraid...

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Interview: David Talbert and Keri Hilson of “Almost Christmas”

The producers of one of my favorite holiday movies, "Next Christmas," are back with "Almost Christmas," another story of the ups and downs of a family Christmas, this one starring Danny Glover, Mo'Nique, Gabrielle Union, Nicole Ari Parker, J.B. Smoove, Romany Malco, and Omar Epps.

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In an interview, writer/director David Talbert and actress Keri Hilson talked about their own favorite holiday memories. Talbert said that every year he and his...

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Trailer: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets from Luc Besson

Get ready to have your socks knocked off -- I saw some concept art and unfinished footage from Luc Besson's "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" at Comic-Con last summer and it is going to be AWESOME. And yep, that's Riri.

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Loving: The Real Story

"Loving," opening across the country this week, is about the couple whose marriage became the Supreme Court case "Loving v. Virginia." It is shocking today to think that it was not until 1967 that laws prohibiting marriage between people of different races were found unconstitutional. Today, there is a Supreme Court justice who is himself married to a woman of a different race....

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Exclusive Clip: All Hail King Julien Season 4, on Netflix

After a falling out between Clover and King Julien's band, the king must now hold band auditions to fill her spot. As you can see in this exclusive clip, it isn't going to be easy. This is a great series for the family, with a lot of sly political commentary for the grown-ups and a lot of silly fun for everyone. The new season will be available on Netflix November 11, 2016. ...

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Election Day Movies: Presidents

After you vote, take a break from red and blue maps to enjoy some of the portrayals of real US Presidents on screen.

Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for Lincoln.  I've already written about some of the many other movie versions of Lincoln's life.  "Wilson" stars Oscar nominee Alexander Knox in a dignified tribute to the 29th President. Gary Sinese gave a...

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Slate: Send Rachel McAdams Back in Time

Slate's Heather Schwedel notes that Rachel McAdams has now appeared in four movies where her job is to sweetly (well, one of them not so sweetly) stand by as the man in her life travels through time, while she herself is stuck like the rest of us, moving forward a minute at a time.

Maybe if McAdams herself could go back in time, she'd rethink her agreement to appear in...

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Interview: Gotham Chopra on the Audience Network Series “The Religion of Sports”

Gotham Chopra talked to me about his new series for the Audience Network, "The Religion of Sports," created with New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan and premiering November 15, 2016.

Have you always been a big sports fan?

Yes, I have. I grew up in Boston Massachusetts during the 80's and 90's and so I’ve just always been a big Celtics, Red Sox, Bruins fan, really a diehard fan of those teams but I would say in general a lover of...

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