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Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives,” a feat of endurance about the 18-day effort to rescue a youth soccer team from Thailand’s Tham Luang cave in 2018 …
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Will Vinton (1947-2018) wasn’t the first person to toy with clay figures in stop-motion animation, but his fingerprints are on some of the most …
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There’s a moment in “Memory Box” when Alex (Paloma Vauthier), a Lebanese teenager in Montreal, finds a series of old photos of her mother, Maia …
Continue readingU.S. to give Cambodia $25 million in agriculture aid.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The U.S. government is giving $25 million in agriculture development aid over five years to projects in Cambodia to help …
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Perhaps best known for releasing jaw-dropping original films like “Moonlight” and “Midsommar,” the film distributor A24 is also in the business …
Continue reading‘The Sandman’ Is Coming to TV. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal.
The Sandman, Neil Gaiman’s best-selling DC Comics series that lasted for 75 issues in its original run, from 1989 to 1996, follows Morpheus, a …
Continue readingIndia Withdraws a Proposed Law on Data Protection
The Indian government on Wednesday unexpectedly withdrew a proposed bill on data protection that a panel of lawmakers had been laboring over for …
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