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Nicolas Winding Refn's shocker manages to deftly sideline all the ways that men prey on vulnerable women in the biz

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A racist guy opens up to the whitest man on television, Anderson Cooper

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Targeted killing program would move to Pentagon, controversies largely in tow

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Gross-out kings Peter and Bobby Farrelly return with a curiously tame movie about -- good eating habits!

The new film by the Wachowski siblings is due out in October

The legality of targeting U.S. citizens dominates drone debates here but Britain's approach follows same logic

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