5 things to know about ‘The Hate U Give’, the adaptation of Angie Thomas’ bestselling YA novel

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Less than two years after Angie Thomas’ novel The Hate U Give took the book publishing world by storm, it’s made the leap to the big screen.

Directed by George Tillman Jr., the movie, like the book, centers on Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg), a teenage girl from the poor black neighborhood of Garden Heights, who attends a private school in the wealthy white neighborhood of Williamson. 

It’s a bifurcated life, but a mostly manageable one for Starr – until the night she witnesses the murder of her childhood friend at the hands of a police officer.  Read more…

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‘First Man’ isn’t the Neil Armstrong biopic you’re expecting. It’s better.

First Man is a big film about the small things that went into an enormous event. 
It’s no spoiler that the climax here is Neil Armstrong’s 1969 walk on the moon. For the first 90 minutes, though, First Man holds back on the inherent drama of tha…

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Lady Gaga is really that good, and 4 more things to know about ‘A Star is Born’

“It’s the same story told over and over. All the artist can offer the world is how they see those 12 notes.”
The character who utters this line in A Star is Born is talking about music, but he may as well be talking about the movie he’s in. This is t…

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‘Life Itself’ is a film that’ll get people talking, and not in a good way

As evidenced by the title, Life Itself has grand ambitions. 
It wants to be about the joy and love that are with us even at the worst of times, about the way death shapes our lives and gives them meaning, about all the twisting threads make up o…

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The new ‘Halloween’ is everything you’d want out of a new ‘Halloween’

Like most long-running horror franchises, the Halloween series has seen its share of ups and downs over the decades. 
But those skeptical of the newest incarnation, directed by David Gordon Green, can put their fears to rest. This one’s good. Re…

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Michael Moore’s ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ is life under Trump in a nutshell

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To watch Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 is to relive, in two jam-packed hours, the experience of being an American for the past two years. 

If it gets a bit scattered trying to pay attention to too many things at once, if it gives you emotional whiplash as you move through despair and terror and righteous fury – well, isn’t that exactly what the past couple of years have been?

Fahrenheit 11/9 opens with footage from November 7, 2016 – election day, when Americans across the political spectrum were united in their assumption that Hillary Clinton would emerge victorious over Donald Trump.  Read more…

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