Movies
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‘The Innkeepers’ Turns Down the Sheets and Turns Up the Fright
Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) do not have what you might call glamorous jobs. They manage the front desk at the oldest hotel…
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Aural Fixation: If 500,000 Units Sold Equals a Gold Record, What Equals Oscar Gold?
With the 84th Academy Award nominations announced last week (and me finally coming up for air post-Sundance), I wanted to give the five Original Score…
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61 Things We Learned from the ‘Armageddon’ Commentary
“I shoot a lot of sexy stuff.”
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Sundance 2012 Review: Fascinating ‘Room 237’ Will Forever Change ‘The Shining’ For Audiences
If you’re the sort of person who loves conspiracy theories, hidden meanings, codes, ciphers, clues, and other mysteries that bear unraveling, then Room 237 is…
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Sundance 2012 Review: Fascinating ‘Queen of Versailles’ Gives Weight and Humor to Failing American…
Sundance 2012 Review: Fascinating ‘Queen of Versailles’ Gives Weight and Humor to Failing American Dream Documentary director Lauren Greenfield (Thin) returned to Sundance with another fascinating…
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Sundance 2012 Review: Stunningly Beautiful ‘Wuthering Heights’ Can’t Escape Unlikability of Its…
Sundance 2012 Review: Stunningly Beautiful ‘Wuthering Heights’ Can’t Escape Unlikability of Its Central Romance While a new adaptation of Emily Bronte’s class English novel might seem…
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Sundance 2012 Review: Fall Out of Love With ‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’ in Rashida Jones…
Sundance 2012 Review: Fall Out of Love With ‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’ in Rashida Jones’ Impressive First Feature It’s often said that believing you will spend…
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Aural Fixation: Composer Marc Streitenfeld May Play to ‘The Grey,’ But His Chilling Score Won’t…
Aural Fixation: Composer Marc Streitenfeld May Play to ‘The Grey,’ But His Chilling Score Won’t Leave You Cold Getting lost in the freezing cold wilderness with…
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Sundance 2012 Review: ‘Shadow Dancer’ Keeps You in the Dark for Too Long
Collette McVeigh seems to be a fairly normal little girl, creating beaded necklaces and bribing her younger brother into running a quick errand for their…