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Noun
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Meanwhile the Sierra Madre Playhouse, built for the silents, has become the L.A. area’s newest performing arts center, where Wild Up will be in residence.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Dec. 2024 -
Boles started his Hollywood career in the silents, but became a big star in the talkies.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
5 Nov. 2024
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Epstein has been portrayed here and there in films, but Midas Man (available on streaming services starting today) is the first full feature devoted to him.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
22 Jan. 2025
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This padded jacket has extra features for keeping your head and neck warm, including a lined hood and stand-up collar.—
Gregory Robinson,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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The feature-length documentary tells how their parents, Maria and Felix, travelled across the Sahara desert to the Spanish enclave of Melilla in north Africa when Maria was pregnant with Inaki (as the elder sibling described to The Athletic in 2022).—
The Athletic UK Staff,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Questlove’s Oscar-winning documentary about the festival illustrated how the sonic diversity of the lineup was partly a microcosm for the big-tent nature of late-1960s Black consciousness.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2025
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Following Art’s appearance in Leone’s 2008 short The 9th Circle and the horror anthology All Hallow’s Eve (2013), the clown led the Terrifier trilogy, which has spanned 2016 to 2024.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
29 Jan. 2025
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Those gels in your belt, shorts, or bra pocket aren’t a sign of weakness.—
Cindy Kuzma,
SELF,
28 Jan. 2025
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Hall Syndicate signed him to a deal, and his cartoons began appearing all over the U.S. Feiffer had become an important voice in the day’s events.—
Chris Koseluk,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Jan. 2025
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Research by political scientist Robert Putnam, referenced in the Netflix documentary Join or Die—named after Franklin’s famous 1754 segmented snake cartoon—shows that civic engagement—whether through joining a club or participating in community organizations—builds trust and strengthens democracy.—
Michael Sheldrick,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The cable category also saw an 18% bump in feature film viewing (after a 14% increase in November).—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
21 Jan. 2025
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As a division of Amazon, IMDb has branched out and has further integrated itself into its parent company’s Prime Video service with its X-Ray feature, which shows the cast and credits of talent in a film or show when the title is paused.—
Erik Hayden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Jan. 2025
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Directed with rigorous control, Sachs’ audacious experiment finds an idiosyncratic spot between Warhol’s static people-sitting-around-talking movies and more structured pieces like Louis Malle’s My Dinner With Andre or the recent docudrama Reality, assembled from FBI transcripts.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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Better Man—a fantasy docudrama biopic about British pop star Robbie Williams—is new in theaters.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Olivia Rodrigo went vintage for Halloween this year, opting to dress up as the iconic animated cartoon character, Betty Boop.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
31 Oct. 2022
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To the narcissist, all other people are cardboard cutouts, two-dimensional animated cartoon characters, or symbols.—
Olivia Muenter,
Woman's Day,
14 June 2022
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“Talkie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talkie. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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