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All robots hate you
As a milky-white gross-beast skitters its way around a wheat field, getting murder-death all over gun-toting space colonists, the only question becomes whether Alien:...
‘Nothing to do with death, everything to do with life’
How do you sum up a life in 500 words? That’s the problem Bruce Weber, veteran obituary writer for the New York Times, faces...
Send in the clowns
Another summer is upon us, and that means it’s time for another season of silent film at Chautauqua.
For those unfamiliar with the silent...
Life goes on
There is nothing in this life more tragic, more soul-crushing than the untimely loss of a loved one. Thankfully, we have developed faiths, routines...
Excaliburp
After a weird text prologue vaguely describes a magic war, the guy who was the Hulk for one movie (Eric Bana) jumps atop a...
Unmixed tape
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 feels like a suitor who discovered that his beloved enjoys chocolate and then filled an Olympic-sized swimming pool...
I’ll have what he’s having
Just what is Israeli cuisine? When Michael Solomonov sits down at a Tel Aviv restaurant and asks for something small, something special, he gets...
Beware, young kayaker!
Do you like Black Mirror but wish it was far, far less interesting and clever? Do you think more movies these days need multiple...
I’m with her
The Irish have a saying: Is this a private fight, or can anybody join? For noted journalist and city activist Jane Jacobs, there was...
Two in the wave
Friendship, much like a marriage, isn’t just a long commitment of support, encouragement and acceptance; it’s a reflection of you, them and the world...
Can you see it now?
I bet the person in charge of marketing Colossal named the ulcer they developed “Nacho.” Writer/director Nacho Vigalondo’s latest is nigh-impossible to categorize and misleading...
Three colors, three ideas, three masterpieces
The colors belong to the French flag, the corresponding ideas to the Republic: blue, white and red — liberty, equality and fraternity. For France,...
