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Thursday
Nov292012

Silver Linings Playbook- Crazy Authentic and Crazy Good!

AuthorPatrick Edmonds | DateThursday, November 29, 2012 at 5:06PM | Comment3 Comments

Silver Linings Playbook is one of those rare films that manages to avoid the conventional labels. It’s dramatic, comedic, romantic, and just plain good.

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Saturday
Mar032012

Two Warm and Magical Escapes: Midnight in Paris and The Secret World of Arriety

AuthorJames Dugan | DateSaturday, March 3, 2012 at 9:48AM | Comment1 Comment

The music compels us, the streets welcome us, the actors invite us to believe that anything is possible.

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Friday
Feb242012

Transcending Laundry with Abba, Toro, and less Bridges

AuthorMeredith Enos | DateFriday, February 24, 2012 at 12:16AM | Comment2 Comments

Every week I borrow a crap movie or two from the library to watch while folding laundry. The parameters are: must be good enough to keep me anaesthetized during the domestic drudgery, but bad enough that I can still multi-task.

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Monday
Jan022012

George Clooney and Shailene Woodley Shine in The Descendants

AuthorNick Carraway | DateMonday, January 2, 2012 at 2:56PM | Comment2 Comments

If you are looking for a sweet, sad getaway, go see The Descendants, an intimately human portrayal of family tragedy that takes viewers to places both exotic and familiar at the same time.

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Tuesday
Dec132011

Page One: Inside the New York Times: A Film about Old and New Media

AuthorNick Carraway | DateTuesday, December 13, 2011 at 12:15AM | Comment1 Comment

This documentary is worth checking out if only for the strange realities brought out by the interplay of new, old, and older media.

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Saturday
Jun042011

DC vs. Marvel: A Summer Movie Rivalry

AuthorEric Delgatz | DateSaturday, June 4, 2011 at 1:13PM | Comment2 Comments

Who will follow in the footsteps of Batman, Superman and potentially The Green Lantern?

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Tuesday
May172011

Directors Take Risks at Cannes 2011

AuthorNick Carraway | DateTuesday, May 17, 2011 at 9:20PM | CommentPost a Comment

A look at some of the movie previews and why these films will be the talk of the entertainment world for the next few weeks.

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Sunday
Jan232011

The New Batman Villain is Society’s Too

AuthorJames Dugan | DateSunday, January 23, 2011 at 2:07PM | Comment1 Comment

The green door (a fan of Green Lantern, he would tell us) opened to every adventure of the human mind as lines of guarded plastic comics reflected a kaleidoscope of color emanating the sweet smell of chalky bubble gum.

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