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It was almost spring last year, and Marian Luntz was hearing all the buzz from the big international winter film festivals. Sydney. Rotterdam. Berlin. As longtime film curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Luntz was doing what she does every year: tracking films she might like to program for the museum. MFAH was off to a strong 2020. They showed all of the nominated Oscar Shorts, as they do every year. “People turned out in droves,” Luntz recalled recently over coffee. And the museum did well with 63 Up, the latest documentary from Michael Apted (who died January 7 of this y...

Every ’90s Blockbuster Movie Ranked Thirty years on, the 1990s has solidified its stature as one of the magical decades in filmmaking, much like how we view the ’30s and the ’70s. Precisely, this Gen X-decade pulled together the Hollywood studio power of the ’30s and the groundbreaking creativity of the ’70s, crocheting commercialism and art into the movie behemoths we speak of in legend as the ’90s blockbuster — which we’ve now ranked all by Tomatometer! First off, in putting together this list, we didn’t want no scrubs: We defined the ’90s blockbuster as any film that m...

Frankie Howerd lives the Roman life in Up Pompeii (1971) Credit: Alamy Early on in Domina, Sky’s new drama about the life of the Roman Empress Livia Drusilla, there is a scene in which the 15-year-old Livia finds the future Emperor Augustus trying to force himself on her. She stops him by grabbing hold of his, ahem, imperial jewels – and the implication is that her hand will metaphorically remain there once she has married him, keeping the first ruler of the world’s greatest empire under her vice-like control.  As always in dramas of Imperial Rome, sex and politics are interdependent....

This dark comedy from Marc Cherry, the creator of  Desperate Housewives is led by Ginnifer Goodwin, Lucy Liu and Kirby Howell-Baptiste. They play three women across three different decades, who all live in the same house in Pasadena, California and who (as the title would suggest) commit murder. We meet Beth Ann Stanton (Ginnifer Goodwin) in 1963, Simone Grove (Lucy Liu), onto her third marriage in 1984, and Taylor Harding (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), who’s in an open marriage in 2019. Each era is represented with exceptional colour, design and style, there are twists and turns aplenty a...

The 100 Best Documentaries of All Time By Elizabeth Jackson, Stacker News AND Nicole Johnson, Stacker News On 5/5/21 at 8:00 PM EDT Great documentaries often give access and illumination to stories that would otherwise go untold. The subject of a great documentary can be anything from a single individual's life to a broader political event, and the effect of the films can be anything from uplifting to devastating. To celebrate the genre, Stacker created a ranking of the top 100 documentaries of all time by leveraging data on all documentary movies to create a "Stacker s...