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A new Kino Lorber documentary on Mary Oliver reveals the poet as a teenage runaway, lifelong smoker, and partner to photographer Molly Malone Cook.
Ross McElwee’s documentary Remake confronts the death of his son Adrian, a longtime subject of his films, and the ethics of that archive.
Ryan Murphy is adapting Bret Easton Ellis’s 2023 autofiction novel The Shards, set in 1981 Los Angeles. Expect excess, menace, and demon twinks.
Brown professor Roberto Serrano moved his final in-person after suspecting AI cheating. Scores fell 50%. A Princeton survey found 29.9% of students admitted to AI-assisted cheating.
















































