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Here comes everybody

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Where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves ... And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with...

The unspoken space between

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When writer/director Jason Hall’s brother returned home from the 1990s conflict in the Middle East, he did so with his “arms and legs and...

Play these movies loud

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It was just over a year ago, on March 6, 2020, when South By Southwest (SXSW) pulled the plug on its film, music and...

In order to form a more perfect union

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A plane has two wings,” a high school junior representing the Federalist Party says to a room full of teens. “A right one and...

‘Batman v Superman’ is evil

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The infinite monkey theorem holds that monkeys randomly typing on keyboards for infinity will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Batman v Superman: Dawn...

Lady liberty triumphant

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If a revolution could ever be distilled into a single image, then let it be Delacroix’s commemoration of the French Revolution’s July 1830 victory,...

Polanski’s ‘Ghost Writer’ not his best

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Little things can take you out of Roman Polanski's...

Rose-tinted world

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At the end of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, house-servantturned-space-commander Riff Raff threatens the sequinned-and-fishnetted Dr. Frank-N-Furter with a laser trident and yells, “Say goodbye to all of this, and hello to oblivion...

Suspenders of disbelief

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Unless And They All Peed Together: The Donald Trump Story is written and filmed faster than a hot-mic whisper to Billy Bush, Live By...

Solid-iron fun

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Iron Man 2 is not a perfect movie, but it’s sure fun and engaging. The new story twists, the health issue that Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) faces and the half-baked but disturbing archenemy Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) add up to a film that’s sure to be the first ...

BIFF: Heads and horsetails

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Penny Chenery, the owner of Secretariat, the Triple Crown-winning racehorse, reveals the truth behind her life in a new documentary, Penny & Red: The Life of Secretariat’s Owner...

Smurfed up

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The good news about the big-screen 3-D version of The Smurfs is that it’s not the insipid — and some say “socialist” — Smurfs you remember from 1980s TV...