With “Mean Girls,” “Wonka” and “The Color Purple,” why have studios spent much of their marketing budget downplaying and disguising their movie musicals?
Category: Movies
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With ‘Mean Girls,’ When Trailers Hit Mute on the Musical
With “Mean Girls,” “Wonka” and “The Color Purple,” why have studios spent much of their marketing budget downplaying and disguising their movie musicals?
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Netflix Film’s Removal Shows Power of India’s Hindu Right Wing
The movie “Annapoorani” was about a female chef overcoming caste prejudice. Hindu activists said it hurt their feelings.
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‘Lift’ Review: Kevin Hart Is a Hero in This Flimsy Action Film
This poorly written action vehicle pits Kevin Hart as a hero against an eco-terrorist villain.
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‘Role Play’ Review: Mommy by Day, Killer by Night
Kaley Cuoco plays a woman balancing a life of domesticity with her career as an assassin in this spineless comedy thriller.
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Did This Couple Inspire Edward Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’?
A newly preserved Andy Warhol film documents a combative artist couple the playwright knew. The movie is premiering in MoMA’s To Save and Project.
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‘The Settlers’ Review: Writing the History of Modern Chile, in Blood
This harrowing drama takes place in Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago in the southernmost part of South America, in 1901.
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‘Self Reliance’ Review: Find a Friend, Save a Life
In this fleetingly amusing comedy, a lonely loser becomes the target of reality-show killers.
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‘Mean Girls’ Review: ‘Get in, Loser,’ Regina George Is Back
Still puffily padded but no longer particularly tart, this shape-shifting classic about the girls you love to hate retains its ingratiating charms.
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‘Household Saints’ at IFC Center: An Italian American Tale
Nancy Savoca’s 1993 film, a mystical, multigenerational Italian American family saga, opens for a revival run at IFC Center.
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‘Driving Madeleine’ Review: A Nonagenarian in Paris
The beloved French singer Line Renaud plays a woman who forms an unlikely bond with a surly cabdriver in this heart-warmer.
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‘Inshallah a Boy’ Review: Where the Male Line Is the Only Line
In this film by Amjad Al Rasheed, a young widow in Jordan strains against the tradition, underpinned by law, that without a man she is nothing.