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Larry Charles
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BU Cinematheque Kicks Off With Larry Charles

September 27, 2016April 13, 2018 - by Prithvi Tikhe - Leave a Comment

Friday evening, director, writer, and producer Larry Charles, famous for Borat and Seinfeld, spoke at the Boston University Photonics Center to share the thought process that goes into comedy films and TV shows. “An …

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Review: “The Martian”

October 12, 2015November 5, 2015 - by Andrew Olson Evans - Leave a Comment

“Blade Runner” and “Alien” are two of the most essential science fictions of all time. “Blade Runner” with its dark, wet, neon-lit dystopia of a humanity that has grown strange …

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Review: “Black Mass”

September 25, 2015September 25, 2015 - by Andrew Olson Evans - Leave a Comment

Reviewers have referred to Black Mass as a gangster horror movie, and that’s certainly fitting. Johnny Depp skulks in the shadows, pale blue eyes glinting with uncanny menace, his sharp …

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Review: House of Cards Season 3

March 11, 2015March 10, 2015 - by Andrew Olson Evans - Leave a Comment

*Please note this article has spoilers for Season 3 of “House of Cards.”* After two seasons of political machinations and backstabbing — of the literal and figurative sense — Frank …

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‘The Battle of the Five Armies’ Fires and Misses

December 18, 2014December 18, 2014 - by Andrew Olson Evans - Leave a Comment

The Battle of the Five Armies is the concluding chapter of Peter Jackson’s trilogy, and assuming he doesn’t get his hands on the Silmarillion rights, the last film we can …

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Excellent Cast Can’t Save ‘Fury’ From War Movie Clichés

October 22, 2014November 9, 2014 - by Andrew Olson Evans - 1 Comment

War never ends quietly.

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Dreamworks Has Done it Again with ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’

June 15, 2014June 14, 2014 - by Brie Garcia - Leave a Comment

It’s always interesting to see how films tackle a sequel. There’s also the issue where they might take the formula of the original and simply add a new story to …

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‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Isn’t All That Amazing

May 2, 2014May 2, 2014 - by Brie Garcia - Leave a Comment

Seeing The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was like watching one of the original Spider Man trilogy films. In that, unlike the realistic comic book movies that have been made (like by …

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Film Review: Race to Nowhere

April 24, 2014April 24, 2014 - by Michelle Cheng - Leave a Comment

The School of Education Student Government hosted a documentary screening of The Race to Nowhere at the School of Communication last Thursday. The documentary brings up the many topics in …

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‘Transcendence’ Doesn’t Manage to Transcend Expectations

April 18, 2014April 18, 2014 - by Brie Garcia - Leave a Comment

This review contains little to no spoilers.  The one positive aspect of this film is that Johnny Depp doesn’t play the typical Jack Sparrow character that he’s been playing for …

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The Avenging Continues in ‘Captain America: The Winter Solider’

April 4, 2014April 3, 2014 - by Brie Garcia - Leave a Comment

This review contains no spoilers.  Captain America has always been, to me, the Superman of the Marvel heroes. Compared to all the other Marvel films, watching Captain America in action is …

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Boston Underground Film Festival’s Sweet, Scary Sixteen

April 1, 2014March 31, 2014 - by Alene Bouranova - Leave a Comment

The Boston Underground Film Festival turns sweet sixteen with its most bizarre collections of films yet.

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