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I don’t know why everyone hasn’t subscribed to Movie Cheat Sheet

Thu, Jul 25, 2013
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I’m starting to add little notices below new reviews in the hopes that this will encourage you all to see what you’re missing in my Movie Cheat Sheet email newsletters.

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Frances Ha review: girl uninterrupted

Thu, Jul 25, 2013
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Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig have carved out, with effortless elegance and ease, a cinematic space for a woman to be, unapologetically, herself.

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Doctor Who thing: the UK National Media Museum wants your Doctor Who memorabilia

Thu, Jul 25, 2013
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For an exhibit opening in November called “Fifty Years of Doctor Who Fans”…

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Dear Mr. Watterson trailer: a Calvin & Hobbes movie! (sort of)

Thu, Jul 25, 2013
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Artists and writers talk about how Calvin & Hobbes influenced them. So I presume this documentary is about 14 hours long…

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London photo of the day: off-kilter door

Thu, Jul 25, 2013
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I’d hate to come home drunk to this house.

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can you spot the bullshit in this description of Timur Bekmambetov’s Warriors of Oz?

Wed, Jul 24, 2013
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The female protagonist has been scrubbed from this “classic story.” Why, Bekmambetov? You got a problem with women?

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Reality review: television becomes us

Wed, Jul 24, 2013
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Italian satire amusingly sends up our obsession with reality TV, but not in a wholly satisfying way.

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Doctor Who thing: one-off characters who should have been companions

Wed, Jul 24, 2013
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One of the many pleasures of Doctor Who is the chance to meet, if only fictionally, an array of fascinating people — some of them not even human, and some of them you wish you could spend more time with…

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2 Guns trailer: oops my partner in crime is a fed… and so am I

Wed, Jul 24, 2013
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Can Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington work together without driving each other crazy, or shooting each other in the head? *cue Odd Couple theme*

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London photo of the day: “You lost the cakes *and* your shoes?!”

Tue, Jul 23, 2013
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I really would love to know the story behind this little tableau, on a curbside in Fitzrovia.

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