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If summer movie season is when thought and reason are jettisoned in favor of explosions and bombast, then fall is when Hollywood decides to get serious. Or should we say, it's when Hollywood decides audiences are ready to get serious — because over the...

THE REAL NEW ENGLAND Shot in the Cape Ann region of northern Massachusetts, Manchester by the Sea captures the rugged beauty of the rocky shoreline, coves and marinas of Cape Cod’s lesserknown cousin, as well as the working-class neighborhoods that...

William M. Drew’s “D. W. Griffith’s House With Closed Shutters” is a real life detective story laced with much heretofore unavailable information about the single most important and most maligned artist in the history of motion...

Sixteen films are set to compete in the dramatic category at next year's Sundance Film Festival in January, with exactly half of those films directed by women - a new record for the festival which will be in its 29th year. Approximately 113 feature...

Paramount and MGM’s big-budget biblical-era epic “Ben-Hur” is expected to land in theaters this weekend with a Roman armor-plated thud. Produced for a reported $100 million (which doesn’t count the presumed tens of millions of dollars spent on marketing...