Photo gallery: Cannes, Day 7
Scenes from the red carpet at the annual film festival
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Sleeping Giant: at Cannes, a Canadian answer to ’Boyhood’ makes a stir
A spectacular Canadian debut starring non-actors solves the puzzle of what happened to Anglo Canadian movies
Photo gallery: Cannes, Day 1
Scenes from the red carpet at the annual film festival
Joss Whedon and the battle for personal franchise movies
Joss Whedon tried to make ’Avengers: Age of Ultron’ as personal as he could, but with franchise movies, personal filmmaking isn’t easy.
Do directors matter in blockbuster movies?
Joss Whedon won’t be directing any more ’Avengers’ films for Marvel. But superhero flicks are no place for an auteur anyway, writes Jaime Weinman
What’s the point of the new Cinderella movie?
It’s easy to be cynical about the Cinderella remake—but then again, it’s not for adults. So the Thrill pop-culture podcast went to the source.
Ghostbusters: Why Hollywood studios won’t solve sexism
Jaime Weinman on why we shouldn’t look to ’all-female’ versions of anything to solve Hollywood’s gender balance problems
Green Lantern: Myth or man?
Superhero mythologies are so powerful that they can survive anything—so we should open them up to change
Are universities complicit in sexual violence?
’The Hunting Ground,’ Kirby Dick’s new documentary on sexual violence at U.S. universities, shines a light on institutional problems and brave survivors
Move over, Peter Parker. It’s time for a black Spider-Man.
He does whatever a spider can, and he’s black. Any questions? It turns out the Internet has many.