Remakes and reboots are a dime a dozen in Hollywood nowadays. Typically, they’re either terrible, cynical cash-grabs that fade away in time, but sometimes those remakes do strike a chord with audiences, such as Bradley Cooper’s 2018 film, “A Star is Born.” And while that film was a critical success that captured the cultural zeitgeist a few years ago, the film has one big critic—Barbra Streisand, who starred in the third remake of “A Star is Born” in 1976.

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For much of the late-20th century, Barbra Streisand was a ubiquitous star of stage, record, and screen. But the EGOT winner’s artistic vision was never clearer than in her three forays into producing, directing and starring in movies: “Yentl” (1983), “The Prince of Tides” (1991) and “The Mirror Has Two Faces” (1996).

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Each film features a touch of Streisand’s cross-medium talents: a little musicality, a little slapstick comedy, and a little Judaism and feminism intermingling to define the persona of an underexplored icon.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

This week, one of the most divisive movies of the holidays hits disc and VOD today, and that’s not all; we’ve got critically acclaimed choices streaming on both Netflix and Hulu, plus a quartet of catalog classics on disc from Criterion and KL Studio Classics.

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Other than stopping by the Marvel-verse to visit her old pals, and uh, “Mortdecai,” Gwyneth Paltrow has given acting a backseat over the past few years. The actress turned entrepreneur has been focused on Goop, where she sells and talks about cucumber cauliflower extract olive oil or ginseng gust or whatever. However, Paltrow is coming back with a huge series, that will bring her back to an audience around the global in one fell swoop.

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The smoke of the SXSW Film Festival is fading, and the spring bloom of the Tribeca Film Festival is around the corner. And like they do every year, the organizers have put together a series of terrific talks with some heavyweight filmmakers and creative talent, and they’re really bringing the goods this April.

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Scarlett Johansson, Noah Baumbach, Dustin Hoffman, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Tom Hanks, and more will participate in a series of conversations that should prove tremendously fascinating and entertaining.

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WEST HOLLYWOOD – Damien Chazelle is apologizing to me for fumbling his words. Justin Hurwitz is practically giddy. Why, you might ask? Oh, “La La Land” had its first AMPAS and guild screening in Los Angeles tonight and none other than Barbra Streisand showed up.

Let’s be very clear. Streisand does not attend public screenings of this sort on a regular basis. But she made sure to stop by the post-screening reception at The London Hotel and to ask the film’s director (Chazelle) and composer (Hurwitz) about which songs were sung live as well as chat about the influences of Michel Legrand who wrote the score and music for Streisand’s own movie musical, “Yentl.” The legend was accompanied by her longtime partner James Brolin and spent most of her night chatting with producer Marc Platt who has had quite a fall with the hit thriller “The Girl On The Train” and Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.”

Eddie Redmayne hosted the screening and was joined by the movie’s leading lady and Best Actress contender Emma Stone, John Legend, costumer Mary Zophres (an Oscar nominee for “True Grit”) and producer Jordan Horowitz.

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Review: 'The Guilt Trip' An Underdeveloped, Clichéd Road Trip Comedy Without Much Gas

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Watch: 2 Clips From 'The Guilt Trip' With Seth Rogen & Barbra Streisand Plus New Pics From The Film

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Watch: First Trailer For 'The Guilt Trip' Starring Seth Rogen & Barbra Streisand

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6 New Photos & Poster Of 'The Guilt Trip' Staring Seth Rogen And Barbra Streisand

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Watch: Barbra Streisand Can't Believe She's Spending A Week With Seth Rogen In 'The Guilt Trip' Clip

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First Look: Seth Rogen & Barbra Streisand Gearing Up For Their 'Guilt Trip'

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Colin Firth & Cate Blanchett To Star In 'Skinny And Cat,' Barbra Streisand's Return To Directing

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Barbra Streisand's Remake Of 'Gypsy' At Universal Now Official, 'Downton Abbey' Scribe Julian Fellowes To Pen Script

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