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Daring yet charmingly British, “Weekend” boldly addresses the issues of young love in the modern era and the problems facing homosexual love. It is an emotional, raw story regardless of the boundaries of time and discrimination. I can’t ask for anything better from a romance.
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Certified Copy is a tri-lingual, partially subtitled story about love, life and art that came out at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Now it has arrived in Cambridge. …
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After 17 weeks, 18 chefs, 15 recaps (and 15 ridiculous portraits of myself), we have reached the “Top Chef All-Stars” finale.
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After a string of failed television shows, can this new series about an aloof and unsympathetic medical examiner revive ABC’s dying line up?
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Almost three years into the Great Recession, Americans are getting hit with a new financial trend that will likely burst in a few year’s time: the “recession comedy.” It’s a …
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Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch is a painful experience, a cheap and violent piece of work that is woefully miscalculated on almost every level. Nonetheless, I’m sure there will be people who defend Sucker Punch, saying that it should be enjoyed as a piece of mindless entertainment. They wouldn’t be wrong about the mindless part.
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“United States of Tara” fits in snuggly with Showtime’s signature dark comedies but stands out from the rest, providing both humor and a big dollop of pathos. On this show about multiple personalities, crazy never seemed so good.
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World-renowned film theorist and historian Thomas Elsaesser came to Boston University’s College of Communication to give a talk about the current state of film theory. Malte Hagener, his colleague and …
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On Monday afternoon, Nancy Signorielli, Professor and Director of the Graduate Program at the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware, spoke to a group of BU students regarding …
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Written by Paul Squire and Monica Castillo It’s late on a Friday night, and you’ve got a craving for popcorn. You gather up your friends and head to the local …
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Boston University’s Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies Film Festival hosted a screening of Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen followed by a talk by Kathleen …
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Big Love, my favorite winter (and sometimes summer) show, ended on March 20 after five seasons. Despite the fact that the Henrickson family — large, pious and polygamous — is …
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