On Monday morning, Giorgio Assumma, a lawyer, stepped out in front of the entrance to the Campus Bio-Medico in Rome to read a prepared statement: “I, Ennio Morricone, am dead.” The dauntingly prolific and immeasurably influential…

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As The War of the Worlds is essentially a cautionary tale, each generation gets its own adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic account of extraterrestrial invasion—one of the several seminal science-fiction novels, also including The Time…

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The innate strangeness of human social rituals is brought to the fore in these brilliantly bizarre anthropological social dramas that double as critiques of cultural norms and niceties. Swedish director Jerry Carlsson's tense, uncanny short SHADOW…

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A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing—neither…

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Cristin Milioti has developed a following on stage and on television, but the film world hasn't really given her the same chance, until Friday. That's when “Palm Springs” drops on Hulu. After audiences flipped for the film at Sundance…

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