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A Quiet Place movie review: hushed horror

Tue, Apr 03, 2018
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An apocalypse unlike any onscreen before. A film often almost unbearably tense, in part because it audaciously reconsiders the role sound plays in eliciting our emotional response.

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New York photos: the NY Post, taking the piss

Tue, Jan 06, 2015
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New York City’s worst rag, embracing its reputation for terribleness and shoving it in our faces.

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women at the Golden Globes = “too much estrogen”

Tue, Jan 14, 2014
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Marvel at the terror of a man seeing the dominance of his privilege challenged on unwitting display.

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evening clickbait: the Spike Lee Oldboy poster controversy gets weirder; apparently Philomena is unfair to nice Catholic nuns who saved innocent babies from whorish mothers

Sat, Nov 30, 2013
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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the Force is not strong with Apple at the moment (and other adventures in social networking)

Mon, Sep 24, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Jackpot (Arme Riddere) (review)

Fri, Aug 10, 2012
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Could I dare to hope that another Jo Nesbo film would be as wickedly funny and as sharply pointed as Headhunters? Alas…

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question of the day: Can movie culture survive the death of so many cinemas?

Mon, Jul 09, 2012
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Should we worry? How will movie culture be changed when all that’s left are shopping-mall multiplexes? How will movie culture be different when almost everyone watches movies exclusively at home… and are we already there?

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question of the day: Do actors deserve to be well paid for appearing in successful films even if they are not the entire reason the films are successful?

Thu, Jun 21, 2012
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New York Post critic Kyle Smith cries foul at the fact that Kristen Stewart is so well paid for Twilight, but he seems to miss a key point…

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question of the day: Could the American broadcast networks be bigger crybabies?

Mon, Apr 27, 2009
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They’re at it again: ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC are complaining because President Obama has asked for some primetime access to discuss with the American public his first 100 days in office. As the New York Post explains: [P]rogrammers are starting to act peeved at Obama’s primetime interruptions — one a month since January — … more…

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