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Fantastic Fungi

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For Paul Stamets, it begins and ends with mushrooms. From death, they create life. From fractures, they create connections. And from sickness, they create...

Scary? Shh! ‘It’…

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When figuring out how to word-hump all the “amazing details” from a five-bazillion-page Stephen King novel into a movie’s screenplay, maybe filmmakers can start...

The reality of experience

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“Say it, no ideas but in things” —William Carlos Williams, Paterson As the legend goes, when poet William Carlos Williams sat down to pen what would...

So you want to bring peace to the Middle East?

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Middle East peace is always a very attractive proposition,” Gamal Helal says. “It’s a very sexy topic. I cannot think of a secretary of...

All work and no play…

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost Buster (Rami...

Wonder Woman versus chauvinism

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In many ways, the comic book character Wonder Woman is very much a product of the time in which she was conceived — World War II America...

The odd couple

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Bloated egos and a twist of fate in ‘Official Competition’

Reel to reel | Week of September 20, 2012

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2 DAYS IN NEW YORK...

‘Book of Eli’ a throwaway post-apocalyptic religious parable

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The 23rd Psalm, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,” is the inspiration for the dark, moody film The Book of Eli, and though it takes quite a while to move beyond its Mad Max roots, it is ultimately a modern religious parable...

Stories we tell

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You know something’s amiss from the start. There’s something benign about the secondary school classroom setting, something pedestrian about the participants that makes your...

Slipping Mickey

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Gather ‘round kids and hear a story from the days of yore, a time when artists drew cartoons with their actual human hands and not every children’s movie had covert sex jokes for ma and pa to chuckle at. It was a time before everything was glossy and smooth, before ...

Owned by none, loved by all

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Cats have been woefully maligned by cinema. Sometimes they are villains — like the conniving Si and Am from Lady and the Tramp —...