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    Pop Culture Happy Hour
    Martin Luther King Jr. in Sam Pollard's <em>MLK/FBI.</em>
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    'MLK/FBI' Humanizes A Civil Rights Icon's Legacy

    Jan 15, 2021
    Sam Pollard's documentary deftly examines the FBI's intense surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. in the final years of his life.
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    Tessa Thompson as Sylvie and Nnamdi Asomugha as Robert in <em>Sylvie's Love.</em>
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    Let 'Sylvie's Love' Wrap You In All Its Goodness

    Dec 24, 2020
    Eugene Ashe's romance is a refreshing throwback to Classic Hollywood, starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha.
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    Pop Culture Happy Hour
    Chadwick Boseman as Levee, Colman Domingo as Cutler, Viola Davis as Ma Rainey, Michael Potts as Slow Drag, and Glynn Turman as Toledeo in <em>Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.</em>
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    Reclaiming Black Culture in 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'

    Dec 18, 2020
    George C. Wolfe's adaptation of the classic August Wilson play features electrifying performances by Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman.
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    The Vegas Movie Experience Was Anything But Normal In 2020

    Dec 18, 2020

    Going to the movies this year was a whole different experience in 2020 — especially the going part. 

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    Elle Lorraine plays a woman whose hair has a mind of its own in Justin Simien's new horror-comedy.
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    In 'Bad Hair,' The Mane Rebels

    Oct 23, 2020
    Justin Simien's horror-comedy gets tangled in its own mythmaking, but as an '80s workplace comedy period piece, it's spot-on.
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    Monster Machine

    Sep 04, 2020

    How two brothers built an indie horror movie empire in Las Vegas

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    Shots - Health News
    Actors Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in a scene from <em>Marriage Story. </em>The award-winning 2019 film can be watched with audio description that conveys scenes to viewers who are visually impaired. But <em>Parasite, </em>another popular award-wi
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    There's A Better Way To 'Dub' Movie Audio For Visually Impaired Fans

    Aug 19, 2020
    Most non-English films made outside the U.S. are inaccessible to many of the 26.9 million visually impaired Americans. "Dubbing just tells us the dialogue," one disability rights activist explains.
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    Liven Up Your Lockdown with These Scary Good Local Movies

    Mar 19, 2020

    From rock 'n' roll to romance to horror (and romantic horror!), local filmmakers have your binge needs covered

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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    <em>Trolls World Tour </em>starring Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake will be the first film by Comcast NBCUniversal to be released to theaters and on-demand at the same time amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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    As Coronavirus Shuts Down Theaters, Universal Shifts Some Films To On-Demand

    Mar 17, 2020
    Trolls World Tour in April will be Comcast NBCUniversal's first film available at home on the same day as its global release. The company said some films in theaters will begin streaming Friday.
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    Niche Events Take Over Film Festival Season

    Feb 04, 2020

    Niche film festivals abound in Southern Nevada.

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    Goats and Soda
    Rosine Mbakam, left, says she chose to shoot all images and sound herself to maintain an equal relationship with the subjects of her films.
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    Meet The Filmmaker Reinventing How African Women Are Portrayed In Movies

    Nov 10, 2019
    Two deeply personal films from Cameroonian Rosine Mbakam won critical acclaim in the U.S. by grappling with how families maintain traditions in a time of global migration and generational change.
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    We’re all geeks now

    Jun 18, 2019

    A dispatch from two formerly fringe fan conventions reveals that "geek" culture has come a long way

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    Diamonds are Forever
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    Click Debate: The 11 Essential Las Vegas Films

    May 01, 2019

    Good, bad, or ugly, they tell essential truths about Vegas.

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    Them and Us
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    The 20 Vegas Films You Must See

    Apr 24, 2019

    Good, bad, or ugly, these films tell essential truths about Las Vegas. (Yes, even Leprechaun 3)

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    Are Movies Getting Better?

    Feb 19, 2019
    Spoiler Alert: An economist has evidence that we're in a golden age of cinema.
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    World
    Alice Dwyer plays the young Hanni Lévy in <em>The Invisibles, </em>which focuses on the lives of four German Jews who stayed in Germany during World War II and survived.
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    'The Invisibles' Reveals How Some Jews Survived Nazi Germany By Hiding In Plain Sight

    Jan 29, 2019
    "You just had to ignore the fear in your gut and push it away, become someone else," recalls one Jewish survivor, now 94. "I had to act like a regular Berliner. And this is what saved me in the end."
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    Obituaries
    Jonas Mekas, seen in 2015 in Venice, Italy, where the filmmaker's digital works were exhibited at the same time as the Venice Biennale. Mekas died Wednesday at the age of 96.
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    Jonas Mekas, Underground Filmmaker Who Cast A Long Shadow, Dies At 96

    Jan 23, 2019
    The Lithuanian-born director, poet, archivist and critic, who died Wednesday, not only made dozens of experimental films — he helped carve a place for countless other filmmakers to do the same.
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    Medusa And Jewish Film Fests Underway

    Jan 11, 2019

    Two film festivals are now in-progress in Las Vegas but they are very different kinds of festivals.

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    Movies
    Director Ryan Coogler attends a London screening of his film <em>Black Panther</em>, the highest-grossing movie of 2018.
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    Black Directors Had A Big Year In 2018 — But Other Inclusion Numbers Stagnated

    Jan 04, 2019
    A new study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found a huge leap in the number of black directors behind the year's biggest films. But its findings elsewhere in Hollywood weren't so rosy.
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    Business
    <em>Roma</em>, written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, is being shown in cinemas across the U.S. — but for just a few weeks — before heading for Netflix streaming.
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    With An Eye On Oscars, Netflix Sent 'Roma' To Theaters First

    Dec 07, 2018
    Alfonso Cuarón's acclaimed movie has been part of an ongoing battle over who gets to premiere movies: streaming services like Netflix, or theaters?
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    Obituaries

    William Goldman, Writer Behind 'Butch Cassidy,' 'Princess Bride,' Dies At 87

    Nov 16, 2018
    Goldman had a successful literary career before he turned to Hollywood, where he made an indelible mark — as the writer of beloved movies as well as a bestselling guide to screenwriting.
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    "Hunt For The Skinwalker" Comes To The Big Screen

    Sep 24, 2018

    A ranch in eastern Utah has been the subject of speculation and research for years.

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    Business
    Cassie Langdon holds her MoviePass card outside AMC Indianapolis 17 theatre in Indianapolis on Jan. 30. MoviePass, the discount service for movie tickets, announced it will not be raising prices but will be capping theater visits at three per month.
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    MoviePass Limiting Subscribers To 3 Movies Per Month

    Aug 06, 2018
    The beleaguered movie theater subscription company will not be raising prices, as it had announced last week. Instead, it will institute a cap on theater visits.
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    Movies
    Actor Wu Lei and actress Zhang Yishang attend a media conference for the film <em>Asura</em> in January in Beijing.
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    China's Most Expensive Film Could Prove Its Biggest Movie Flop

    Jul 17, 2018
    Asura, billed as an epic fantasy based on Buddhist mythology that cost $112 million to make, had a dismal box office in its opening weekend and was promptly pulled by producers.
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    Parallels
    Reem Almodian, 22, says her dream was to perform on Broadway or in front of a camera. She decided to go behind the camera instead and enrolled in Saudi Arabia's only film school, at the all-female Effat University.
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    As Saudi Arabia's Cinema Ban Ends, Filmmakers Eye New Opportunities

    Apr 21, 2018
    Allowing cinemas is part of a modernization drive by the Saudi government, which hopes to create more business opportunities and become a regional film hub. But it's a tough place to be a filmmaker.
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