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Waiting for Tolkien

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Guillermo del Toro was an inspired pick to direct the The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. If anybody can keep Bilbo from getting cute — and keep Gollum genuinely creepy — it’s the director of Pan’s Labyrinth. When del Toro visited Studio 360 last summer, he talked with Kurt about […]

Netflix’s New Release “Tallulah”: Steal This Baby!

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Howard Fridkin’s Guide to MPAA Ratings

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

A scene from the movie "Okja," featuring the title creature — a humongous pet pig.

A Netflix animal rights movie came at a strange time for South Korea

October 18, 2017Culture

This Van Gogh movie looks like his paintings

September 28, 2017Arts

Danny Strong takes J.D. Salinger to the movies

September 28, 2017Arts

How and why Danny Strong made a movie about how and why J.D. Salinger made “The Catcher in the Rye.”

Guilty pleasure: ‘The Godfather: Part III’

August 22, 2017Arts

One brave critic not only defends, but praises, “The Godfather: Part III”.

The physics behind 2017’s biggest superhero movies

August 4, 2017Culture

Could Wonder Woman actually block bullets with her bracelets? Could Thor punch the Hulk without knocking himself over? Professor Rhett Allain turns to physics to find out.

Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay in "Room" (George Kraychyk/A24)

Imagining what it’s like to be born captive in an underground room

November 12, 2015Media

Emma Donoghue explores the mind of a child born into captivity in her hit novel “Room,” now a film

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