‘Sleepers’ at 30: Director Barry Levinson Is Still Perplexed by the Film’s Controversy

‘Sleepers’ at 30: Director Barry Levinson Is Still Perplexed by the Film’s Controversy

[This story contains spoilers for the 30-year-old Sleepers.] Nearly 30 years later, Sleepers director Barry Levinson still believes that the discourse surrounding his star-studded drama lost the plot.  Based on Lorenzo Carcaterra’s book of the same name, Sleepers begins in the late 1960s, chronicling four teenage friends whose mischievous quest for a free hot dog…

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Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock Defend Finale Choices

Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock Defend Finale Choices

[This story contains major spoilers from the season finale of Netflix’s Sirens.] Throughout Netflix’s five-episode series Sirens, viewers hace watched Devon (Meghann Fahy) try to lure her sister Simone (Milly Alcock) away from the lavish community she now resides in while working for and being uncomfortably close with socialite Michaela “Kiki” Kell (Julianne Moore), who…

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‘Sirens’ Review: Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock and Julianne Moore Star in Netflix’s Erratic Slice of Affluence Porn

‘Sirens’ Review: Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock and Julianne Moore Star in Netflix’s Erratic Slice of Affluence Porn

Mortal women tend to get a bum deal in classical mythology; it isn’t uncommon to see them reduced to simple, ill-fated victims or, in more complicated instances, turned into literal monsters for offenses they didn’t commit. It’s almost progressive that princesses and washerwomen alike get crushed by the caprice of misbehaving immortals — but only…

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#‘Home Alone,’ ‘Terminator 2,’ ‘Love & Basketball,’ ‘Desperately Seeking Susan,’ ‘Fame,’ ‘Apollo 13’ Enter National Film Registry

#‘Home Alone,’ ‘Terminator 2,’ ‘Love & Basketball,’ ‘Desperately Seeking Susan,’ ‘Fame,’ ‘Apollo 13’ Enter National Film Registry

Just in time for the holidays, Chris Columbus’ Home Alone and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas have been unwrapped with 23 other cinematic sparklers for entry into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, it was announced Wednesday. Among those also voted in: Dinner at Eight (1933), the seventh film from director George Cukor…

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