Emma.

Tales of matchmaking usually are lackluster. That is certainly true in Emma., the new adaption of the famous 1815 novel by Jane Austin directed by Autumn de Wilde, in her debut, with a screenplay written by Eleanor Catton. Trying to ride on the coattails of the immensely successful adaptation of...

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The Best Movie Songs

Songs have a unique ability to affect movie scenes in a profound way. Some films can exist without any music (The Birds being a notable example), and if it works, then it works. But the twenty films listed below would not have lasted as long as they have in the public imagination without the power...

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The Land Before Time

Surprisingly or not, dinosaurs were part of children's imaginations long before Jurassic Park. Dino-obsessed kids of the 1980s likely were exposed to neat and inventive productions about fearfully great lizards even before the hit ABC series Dinosaurs. For example, there was the 1985 TV segment...

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