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OFCS 2017 awards winners announced

Thu, Dec 28, 2017
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Get Out wins Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, and Three Billboards also take two awards each.

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Logan movie review: wounded Wolverine, dangerous beast

Mon, Feb 27, 2017
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The X-Men series — the entire superhero genre — has never seen a film like Logan before: raw, rageful, tormented, human. Best of the series yet.

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curated: the Patrick Stewart–Ian McKellen Inception…

Wed, Jan 25, 2017
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Mind. Blown.

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from Facebook: is there an age limit on cool for women?

Sat, Nov 28, 2015
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[This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Green Room movie review: waiting-room hell (LFF 2015)

Tue, Oct 13, 2015
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Blue Ruin’s Jeremy Saulnier is back with a smart, savage, dryly funny horror flick that has something to say about all-too-human monsters. No spoilers!

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X-Men: Days of Future Past movie review: time for hope

Mon, May 19, 2014
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With its time-twisting plot, sci-fi soapiness, powerful humanism, and to-die-for cast, this is the summer blockbuster done with elegance and heart.

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Walking with Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie review: where is an extinction-level event when you need one?

Mon, Dec 16, 2013
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Sub-vaudeville 1950s sitcom humor and a horrifically dated message about boys as heroes and girls as the heroes’ property. You know, for kids!

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The Hollow Crown trailer: dead kings, hot guys

Tue, Aug 13, 2013
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Let us tell sad stories of the death of kings. And let the kings be played by the hottest guys in the land.

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nice analysis of why Princess Leia is so damn cool (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Aug 10, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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African Cats (review)

Tue, May 08, 2012
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A gorgeously photographed, astonishingly intimate look at two big-cat families in the Maasai Mara game preserve in Kenya…

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