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Sun-Times at 75: A look back, starting with a story that became a Jimmy Stewart movie

The first daily edition was a reminder to readers that, while they were reading a new paper, they could trust the reporting. That has never changed.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: No, movies are not empathy machines — and the brilliant 'Saint Omer' shows why

Roger Ebert once famously likened the movies to "a machine that generates empathy." It's a formulation I've never fully been able to swallow, for reasons that have less to do with Ebert's specific insight than with its reductive, ad-nauseam recycling by other critics and moviegoers.

Los Angeles Times

'Avatar: The Way of Water' producer doesn't care about its "cultural footprint"

'Avatar: The Way of Water' producer Jon Landau dives into the innovations behind James Cameron's new sequel, and defends against movie's lack of a footprint.

Inverse

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20 years ago, Christian Bale made a sci-fi box office disaster — and a secretly great action movie

If you need an emotionless sci-fi world, don’t call Spock. Call Bale.

Inverse

The scariest town in Illinois does not exist. But you can visit in ‘Halloween Ends’

CHICAGO — Haddonfield, Illinois, does not exist.

Chicago Tribune

You need to watch Spielberg's misunderstood sci-fi masterpiece on Amazon Prime ASAP

Spielberg's merciless yet maudlin take on a classic fairytale deserves a revisit.

Inverse

Gaming the System: meet the new indie developers changing the game

A brave band of indie game developers is making it their mission to bring positive messages to the world’s three billion gamers, writes Amy Francombe

Evening Standard

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Never made, destroyed, in a locked safe for 100 years: with Batgirl cancelled, here are 5 other films we will never get to see

Batgirl has become the latest film to be added to a growing list of movies we will never get to see. The US$90 million film had been shot and largely edited, but now the whole thing will be consigned to the cutting room floor.

The Conversation

Unmade, destroyed, locked away: With Batgirl cancelled, here are five other films we’ll never see

The US$90 million film had been shot and largely edited, but now the whole thing joins other films in being consigned to the cutting room floor.

The New Daily

You need to watch the most bombastic sci-fi monster movie on Netflix before it leaves next week

A fascinatingly misguided insight into how the summer blockbuster can go horribly awry.

Inverse

50 years ago, Watergate changed the American political thriller forever

When Richard Nixon’s administration covered up its involvement in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s offices, a new cinematic catnip was born.

Inverse

Ray Liotta, 'Goodfellas' star, dies at 67

Ray Liotta, the blue-eyed actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 67

France 24

Alien 3 at 30: David Fincher’s divisive threequel remains a fascinating failure

The first-time film-maker memorably disowned his grim and grimy Alien movie but a devoted fanbase insists it’s better than its bad reputation

The Guardian - US

William Hurt: Oscar-winning star of 1980s films

His performance in ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ earned him the prestigious prize

The Independent UK

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The Awful Uncharted Raises the Question: Are Video Game Movies Art?

Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg star in another timid, lifeless video game adaptation.

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