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Leah Koch, a co-owner of the romance bookstore, describes how the genre has changed and what makes it special.

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Academy Awards, the film won five Oscars, including best picture. Then came 9/11, a tanking economy and Kevin Spacey.

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The films of the science fiction genre have often cautioned against meddling with the space-time continuum. Apart from its ...

As of February 2025, the year's best slasher film patterns itself on a formula involving attacks on Valentine's Day. Josh ...

These are films that make it clear to audiences that they are watching a work of fiction, using that lens to satirize ...

The New Yorker writers Richard Brody and Justin Chang talk with the senior editor Leo Carey about how they became film ...

Demi Moore should definitely win the Oscar Best Actress for her role in "The Substance", not only for her intensely moving performance, but because she subverts everything Hollywood has trained us to ...

One of Ford’s goals with the film is to leave audiences with “the reminder that there is something beyond what we can see and experience,” they say. “The choices of the people we love and ...