Movies
Today’s audiences don’t just watch movies at the local cineplex. They screen them on their laptops, tablets and smart phones as well. The genres may be different, but Hollywood in Toto looks at entertainment value first and foremost when helping you pick the best movie for your favorite media player.
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‘Fargo’ Part 2: Franchise Offers Something Tarantino Never Could
The Coen brothers’ 1996 film “Fargo” is a cinematic original. Surely, it derives certain tropes the brothers had worked out…
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‘The Tiger Rising’ Roars When It Should
Disney’s “Old Yeller” may be a children’s film, but it delivers a sobering lecture on the circle of life. That…
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‘Ghosts of Mississippi’ – The Last Time Director Rob Reiner Mattered
In 1996, when I was a college freshman, my campus was visited by Yolanda King, the daughter of Dr. Martin…
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Why ‘Fargo’ Franchise Is Both Necessary and Rare
The 1996 film “Fargo” captured something too often missing from American film culture—a portrait of what flyover country actually looks…
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‘Ray Donovan: The Movie’ Wraps Series, Leaves Us Unsatisfied
Be careful what you wish for … Fans revolted when Showtime abruptly canceled “Ray Donovan” following its seventh season two…
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‘Scream’ 2022: Let’s Do the Time Warp … Again
The new “Scream” has the same title as the original 1996 Wes Craven horror classic but is actually the fifth…
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‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Delivers (Over and Over Again)
Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is the first film he hasn’t directed with his equally celebrated brother, Ethan Coen.…
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‘The 355’ Can’t Get Anything Right
Simon Kinberg’s “The 355” opens with a logo for Freckle Films, the production company of its star, Jessica Chastain, and…
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‘The 355’ Offers a Greatest Hits Package of Action Movie Tropes
One look at “The 355” and it’s hard not to ask a simple question. Just how woke will it be?…
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‘Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within’ Tried, and Failed, to Change Cinema
“Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” wanted to change the way movies were made, challenge our ideas of what a movie…
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