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Actors love spouting life lessons. Sometimes it’sabout looking within, or being thankful, or being true to the spirit of the craft. The lesson Manny Jacinto takes with him to this day? It’s a lot more straightforward: “Don’t throw chairs.” Nonsensical? Perhaps, but for Jacinto, the exhortation is literal. Born in …

Leave it to Spike Lee to explode the typical high-stakes remake. His new film, Highest 2 Lowest, which opened Friday, flips Akira Kurosawa’s mannered 1963 staple, High and Low, into a rowdy, topical, laugh-out-loud romp (starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and A$AP Rocky) that’s as beautifully jarring as a dissonant …

I started watching Sex and the City in college. On Sunday nights, I’d walk over to my friend Anna’s room in our small Midwestern liberal arts college. I’d sit on the cheaply carpeted floor, our friend Kate on the bed. We’d drink beer or Fresca, eat bags of Doritos and …

Filmmaker Julia Loktev’s voice is the first we hear in her epic new documentary. Over a nighttime shot of Moscow, she warns, “The world you’re about to see no longer exists. None of us knew what was about to happen.” For the next five-and-a-half hours, My Undesirable Friends: Part I …

I like my fictional TV women like I like my coffee — coursing with enough high-caliber force to take down a feral hog, ruin marriages via sapphic adultery, and power boozy brunch after boozy brunch. If this particular brand of desperate housewife sounds appealing, have I got a show for …

When Margaret Brown moved to Austin in 1996, she was greeted by the smiling faces of four young girls, peering down at her from faded billboards all over town. Highlighted in a shock of red, just underneath their black and white portraits was the question, “WHO KILLED THESE GIRLS?” In …

Zach Cregger has a look of horror on his face. He has said something he should not have said. When the writer-director first penned what would become Barbarian, his 2022 Airbnb-set horror movie that turned into a word-of-mouth phenomenon, he was coming off years of work as an actor for …

Arriving on the 80th anniversary of America dropping atomic bombs on Japan, Ghosts of Hiroshima by author Charles Pellegrino is a stunning work of history. The book takes a deeply reported, humanistic, even archaeological approach to one of the most devastating and horrific military actions ever taken. Aug. 6, 1945, …

E ven over the phone, you can feel Liam Neeson’s gravitas. It doesn’t matter that he’s hopped on the line for a “Last Word” interview loosely centered around his remarkable comedic turn in The Naked Gun reboot. This is still a man who’s played both Jedi master and Batman supervillain, …

“Somewhere in this city, possibly among these people, is a man… so close to the edge that when he breaks, it could change your life forever.” The city is New York at the end of era, poised between being the place that a sitting President implied should “drop dead” and …