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Movie
Eagles of the Republic review – a glossy portrait…
From films such as István Szabó’s 1981 Mephisto to Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss from 1982, we all know that…
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Market
New York Bill Targets House Flippers With Punitive Tax
Did you know that toxic house flippers are sucking money out of neighborhoods and making them unaffordable? Fear not. Politicians…
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Hen review – a strange, uniquely compelling film
The first image of György Pálfi’s Hen – an extended close-up on a chicken’s cloaca as she lays an egg – might take…
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Red Rocks – first-look review
There was a time, in the ’90s and early ’00s, when watching a film by French filmmaker Bruno Dumont involved getting to…
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Food
Grilled Corn On The Cob Recipe
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Culture
The real reason Whistler’s mother became an iconic US masterpiece
Like all successful memes the original concept is easily understandable. Its theme of motherhood is universal, and the composition and…
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A Man of His Time – first-look review
This is a film which argues that the notion of patriotism and political pride can only ever lead to personal ruin,…
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Movie
Summer Drift – first-look review
God forbid a woman have hobbies: What suspense there is in Summer Drift, a charming French-language Swiss hybrid doc, comes from whether…
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Market
RealPage Rent-Fixing Settlements Pass $200M
More landlords are inking settlements in the RealPage rent-fixing litigation. The settlement agreements of 11 landlords were recently disclosed in…
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Movie
Viva Carmen – first-look review
It seems unlikely that many kids will warm to this visually sunny though tonally downbeat animated rendering of Bizet’s classic…
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