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Month: January 2016

London photos: flying fish at Lumiere London

Sat, Jan 30, 2016
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Or maybe they were gas whales from the upper atmosphere of Jupiter?

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London photos: lanterns along Piccadilly at Lumiere London

Fri, Jan 29, 2016
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The lanterns strung across Piccadilly were simple, but beautiful. I wish they would have left them there forever.

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Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (88th Academy Awards) review

Fri, Jan 29, 2016
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The wonderfully weird, hilariously morbid “World of Tomorrow” crams in more disturbing, sinister science-fiction ideas than a decade’s worth of blockbusters.

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Oscar Nominated Live-Action Shorts (88th Academy Awards) review

Fri, Jan 29, 2016
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“Day One” is a wartime drama the likes of which we have not seen before, with a marvelous Layla Alizada as an interpreter with U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi movie review: American mercenary

Fri, Jan 29, 2016
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Michael Bay propagandizes for a right-wing idea of “true America,” seething with disdain for anyone who isn’t a former elite soldier turned mercenary.

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London photo: lido diving board at Lumiere London

Thu, Jan 28, 2016
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The King’s Cross Pond got an extra added bit of art: a diving board made entirely of light.

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Where Are the Women? Boy & the World

Thu, Jan 28, 2016
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If not for the title, we’d have no clue at all as to the child protagonist’s gender. Which makes it all the more frustrating that a gender has been imposed.

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Boy & the World movie review: urban chaos and color

Thu, Jan 28, 2016
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Paints an impressionistic canvas of unease and disquiet, of hope and wonder, filled with glorious music. Magical… though sometimes it’s black magic.

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London photos: Westminster Abbey transformed at Lumiere London

Wed, Jan 27, 2016
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I don’t know how the artist got so precise with the color.

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Where Are the Women? Our Brand Is Crisis

Wed, Jan 27, 2016
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A female protagonist in a position of authority, in which she is allowed the space to be professional and be heeded by men, is a very good thing.

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