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Looking back on the career of Julian Sands, whose remains were just found and identified after he went missing back in January while hiking in California’s San Gabriel Mountains, can be a bit of a puzzling experience. There was a time early on when it seemed as if he was poised to become as big…

Cheese graters, tattoo needles, kitchen scissors—it would be harder to name a household object that isn’t put to exorbitantly gory good use in Lee Cronin’s “Evil Dead Rise,” a gratifyingly lean and impressively mean new installment in the long-running horror franchise.  Kick-started by Sam Raimi’s classic 1981 cabin-in-the-woods cheapie, still an exemplar of independent splatstick…

10 NEW TO MAX “Dog Day Afternoon“Eastern Promises”“Evil Dead Rise”“The Hurt Locker”“I, Tonya”“Moneyball”“Moonlight”“Narc”“Ready Player One”“A Star is Born” 10 NEW TO NETFLIX “The Breakfast Club”“Dunkirk”“Groundhog Day”“The Imitation Game”“Living”“Mean Girls”“The Mule”“Stronger”“To Leslie”“Unbroken” 11 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “Avatar: The Way of Water” Have the people complaining about the lack of the cultural footprint for “Avatar” been silenced…

Due to his high-profile death from AIDS early in the crisis and its galvanizing effect on the movement, Rock Hudson is arguably more known now as an icon of LGBTQ history than for the films he starred in. That is certainly the point of view of Stephen Kijak’s latest documentary, “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven…

America is often ridiculed internationally for its affinity for the flag. A symbol of patriotism hung outside of homes, worn on shirts, pasted on bumper stickers, etc., the flag is an omnipresent force in the visual fabric of America. Yet what has garnered quite a bit of controversy over the past few years is another…