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You’ll find an entry on Lyle Talbot (1902-1996) in some movie encyclopedias, but not in others. In the early 1930s, he was under contract to Warner Bros., often playing “weak-willed malefactors.” His co-stars included Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard and Mae West, but he wasn’t charismatic enough to build a picture around, and the studio eventually let him go. He ended up making something like …

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“The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century” by Margaret Talbot

The new science fiction ad­ven­ture ­­“Looper” bears the unmistakable imaginative signature of its maker, writer-director Rian Johnson.

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Adult-minded movies’ fates lie in their stars

We go to the movies to dream.

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Going to the movies is a break from reality. Until reality starts shooting.

The fun of any festival is discovery — stumbling on a movie that, with no buzz, marketing or preconceptions behind it, winds up changing your life (or at least the way you see the world).

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Financial crises can seem like horror movies. Peter Matheson, chief economist at the British Embassy in Washington, writes that economic policy makers might take some lessons from the genre.

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What Horror Movies Can Teach Economic Policy Makers