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Chris Carter talks to The Vulture about The X-Files, his Sopranos jealousy, and more.
Hugh Laurie reveals how Los Angeles helped him to reinvent himself.
Anthony Paletta reviews Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius’s The Incal.
Michael Koresky’s time machine lands in 1938.
Nick Pinkerton gets bombastic for California.
Anthony Lane on the portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron.
Calum Marsh on how Welles’s The Trial transforms mental space into a huge, indomitable world.
Dean Norris spoils the end of Breaking Bad:
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