Movies
Movies you might have missed: “I Am Twenty”
January 5, 2012Soviet filmmakers were often criticized in the West for producing stories sneeringly termed "boy gets tractor, meets girl."
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“Young Adult”: You can’t go home again to Kilimanjaro
December 19, 2011The only uplifting thing in the movie was the IATSE union bug in the last frame.
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London calling: a review of “London River”
December 15, 2011Co-writer/director Bouchareb explores the unlikely cross-cultural friendship that evolves between the Christian woman and Muslim man.
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Muppets, Fox News and the Looney Tune right
December 14, 2011The sheer wackiness of its anti-Muppets hysteria suggests that Fox News has become a parody of itself - but it represents a powerful political constituency.
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Go see “Hugo,” “Descendants,” skip “Melancholia”
November 30, 2011"Hugo" and "The Decendants" get two thumbs up. "Melancholia" on the other hand gets two thumbs down.
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