Los Angeles Public Library users are A24 superfans. Kanopy has the receipts. The streaming service, available free to users with a library card from participating…

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Mikey Madison in the movie “Anora.” (Festival de Cannes) In a main competition light on laughs, Sean Baker’s uproarious firecracker of a romantic-action-crime comedy, starring…

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Amid today’s heated streaming wars, it appears diversity is the secret weapon. Women and people of color played a pivotal role in driving ratings for…

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CANNES, France —  When Australia’s George Miller came here in 2016 to serve as jury president, just months after his “Mad Max: Fury Road” won six…

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Roger Corman, the legendary independent Hollywood producer and director whose long string of profitable low-budget movies such as “Attack of the Crab Monsters,” “The Little…

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I never saw the 2017 film “Justice League.” But if I had, I would have been treated to a scene in which Batman (Ben Affleck)…

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Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like CinemaCon — where no matter how many hits the motion picture industry has taken over the last…

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It’s Godzilla season again with last weekend’s worldwide theatrical release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. This is the second time Godzilla and King…

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Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. As if we aren’t already…

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Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Last week when spotlighting a…

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The critical success of the FX series “Reservation Dogs” and the spotlight on performers like Lily Gladstone, an Academy Award nominee for “Killers of the…

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Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Last weekend saw a slew…

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Past Lives, May December and American Fiction lead the nominees at the Independent Spirit awards, which are being handed out this morning.The awards, known as…

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Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. This year’s Oscars nominees luncheon…

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Screenwriter Diablo Cody has been in Hollywood long enough that she doesn’t believe in coincidences. “Not to get woo-woo, but having worked in this industry…

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Depending on the decade you saw him onscreen, Carl Weathers may evoke memories of either seriousness or laughter, which is to say that he had…

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An image from the documentary “Daughters.” (Sundance Institute) Executive produced by Kerry Washington, “Daughters” culminates with an emotional father-daughter dance inside a Washington, D.C., jail.…

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Plockton's micro climate allows palm tress to grow in this Scottish beauty spot - that's so attractive it's graced the silver screen as well as…

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It’s been a devastating week at the Los Angeles Times, with the layoffs of countless colleagues. That is going to mean some changes around here.…

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Thanks to Matt Brennan for taking the lead on our Wide Shot daily editions from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Now, back…

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