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Peter Hyams’ “2010: The Year We Make Contact” (1984) was the first time a director dared to make a sequel to a Stanley Kubrick film. Of course, today this is commonplace, with Mike Flanagan’s excellent “Doctor Sleep” and that shaky portion of “Ready Player One” (making Jack Torrance a video game character – nice one, …

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Hollywood liberals like George Clooney can pen political op-eds to their heart’s content. Conservative stars meet in secret, keep their views off social media and fear being outed for not singing from the progressive hymnal. We saw the latest example earlier this week, something Matthew McConaughey accidentally addressed at Friday’s National Governors Association Summer Meeting …

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Some movies define their genre in ways time can’t touch. Go ahead and make a killer shark movie. You won’t lap 1975’s “Jaws.” The same holds for 1973’s “The Exorcist” (possession thrillers) and 1991’s “The Silence of the Lambs” (serial killer tales). For a while, “Longlegs” evades “Silence’s” gargantuan shadow. It helps that we don’t …

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Being canceled has its privileges. Not many, mind you, but a few that matter for comedians who care about their craft above all else. Take stand-up comic Josh Denny. The Food Network alum found himself professionally canceled in 2018 for a racially-charged quip that landed with a thud with some social media users. His own …

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