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Yesterday

loaded question: have you ever been so angry at a movie’s trailer that you wanted to sue the studio?

Mon, Jan 31, 2022
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Can you sue when all the funny bits are in the trailer? Can you sue if a piece of music you love is in the trailer but not in the movie? What would compel you to take legal action?

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Blinded by the Light movie review: bend it like The Boss

Sat, Aug 10, 2019
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Seriously adorkable teen is saved, in 1987, by the rock poetry of Bruce Springsteen. The Boss is still relevant today, as is, alas, the harsh political and economic setting of Thatcher’s Britain.

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Yesterday movie review: imagine there’s no Beatles…

Mon, Jun 24, 2019
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It’s not interested in a world absent the incalculably enormous impact of the Beatles. It’s just a lazy comedy of one running joke, a regular schmoe enjoying unwarranted success, and a blah romance.

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