This year’s literary guest of honor is Timothy Zahn, the writer who practically set the stage for Star Wars‘ initial expanded universe.
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The Flaming Lips’ new Oczy Mlody album brings a dense modern perspective to mythic psychedelia
The Oklahoma City-based band’s 15th studio album features an appearance from band friend and frequent collaborator Miley Cyrus.
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The Flaming Lips considers its Dec. 16 debut at The Criterion a long-awaited homecoming
The band is set to debut its new album on Jan. 13, Wayne Coyne’s birthday.
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Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children stands out from other attempts at a teen-fiction series
Samuel L. Jackson appears in the film as the villainous Barron.
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Cosplay Prom takes guests back to a memory long ago and far, far away
A prom king and queen will be voted on by attendees.
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I hate scary movies, but I loved Guillermo del Toro’s new gothic masterpiece Crimson Peak.
I hate scary movies, but I loved Guillermo del Toro’s new gothic masterpiece Crimson Peak.
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Kiss of the Damned
Ushered into that world is Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia, That’s My Boy), a screenwriter who meets the mysterious, gorgeous Djuna (Joséphine de La Baume, Johnny English Reborn). Because of her “skin condition,” she’s a night owl who spends much of her time holed up in an isolated mansion watching old movies by Buñuel and Di Sica. […]
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Granted, that title tells you everything you need to know. Armed with steampunk weaponry and high-gloss camp, siblings Hansel (Jeremy Renner, The Bourne Legacy) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton, Clash of the Titans) have devoted their lives to dispatching witches. In the case of this film, their current target is one (Famke Janssen, Taken 2) responsible […]
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Beautiful Creatures
Set in a South Carolina small town where the drawls are Okie-thick, the film follows Lena (New Zealand newcomer Alice Englert) as she nears her all-important sweet 16th. Because she is a member of the Ravenwood family of witches and warlocks — they prefer the term “casters” — that birthday is when she finds out […]
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Blancanieves
Once upon a time, the idea of a film being silent, foreign and — steee-rike three! — black and white equated to box-office poison. Then 2011’s The Artist won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture; earned $133 million worldwide; and lived happily ever after. Hoping for the same storybook ending is Spain’s Blancanieves. While every […]