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At that performance, director Robert Rossen was impressed, and later cast Hackman in a small role in LILITH with Warren Beatty. Three years later, Beatty remembered Hackman and cast him in BONNIE AND ...

Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl explores everything from the tragicomedy of survival to the Black feminist refusals ...

This thorny question is really an ethical one. Who is film piracy harming? What is it destroying? And are those entities ones that you care about? Anyone could spend hours writing through the ...