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‘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...

Love high

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There are unsightlier hags in the world than Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal, and the seriously mood-swinging romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs offers several acres of surface appeal simply because their characters, Maggie and Jamie, spend a heartening amount of ...

Replicant? No, repli-can!

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It is profoundly insightful and upsetting that both Blade Runners explicitly tackle the sins of civilizations built on slavery and sexual subjugation without including...

These pictures of you

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Hank has given up. Marooned on a deserted island in the Pacific, he has run out of food, water and reasons to live. All...

The tiger in the jungle

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Remembering the legacy of James Caan with 'Thief'

Ten short films about morality

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Famed Polish writer/director Krzysztof Kieslowski already had a handful of feature films and documentaries under his belt when his writing partner, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, gave...

Merchandise in lieu of a movie

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Cars 2 had every chance to improve upon the leisurely 2006 animated feature from Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Studios. Yet here we are, stuck with a merchandising assembly line in lieu of a movie. Despite its technical and design finesse, this ranks as ...

A knife in the water and the snakes in the grass

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In the history of cinema, there are few feature debuts as mysterious, haunting and assured as Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water. Yes, that...

Changing the face of cinema

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Remember those old movies? The ones where a couple drives down the road, only they aren’t driving, they’re sitting in a car on some studio lot. And that’s not a road behind them; it’s a rear projection of road. Looks fake doesn’t it...

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,...

Nobody puts Baby in the corner

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Pica (Toby Smith) is an Oakland college student taking Polaroids in a photography class devoted to 35 mm. “I came here to learn how...

Requiem for a studio musician

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Have you heard of The Wrecking Crew? The musical geniuses behind “These Boots Are Made For Walking,” “California Dreamin’,” “Good Vibrations” and more? No? Are you sure...