WHEN TUPAC SHAKUR‘S estate approached Allen Hughes to make a documentary about the iconic rapper, Hughes said thanks, but no. Sure, the Defiant Ones filmmaker and his brother, Albert, had co-directed Shakur’s first music videos; Hughes had also been violently attacked by Shakur and his entourage in the early Nineties. …
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If you grew up in the Nineties, you were blessed with a steady supply of witch’s brew. Between movies like Hocus Pocus, Practical Magic, Eve’s Bayou, and The Witches — and in TV shows like Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch — outsider females with supernatural …
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Like a lot of actors who’ve had long, incredibly varied careers, John Turturro gets approached by a number of different folks when he’s out in public. The 63-year-old can usually tell what they recognize him from within a few seconds. “If they have kids, it’s almost always Transformers,” he says, …
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Robert Eggers was a little pissed off. The young filmmaker from New Hampshire had been trying to get his debut feature, a period piece called The Witch about a family banished into the woods of 17th century New England, made for close to three years and he wasn’t getting anywhere. …
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