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When one skims brochures aimed at recruiting freshmen, they seem to be brimming with gleaming stats, beautiful aerial views, and smiling faces. After the shiny newness wears out and the …
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It’s been seven years since the final season of Friends aired. A lot has happened since then; the public had to find a new hairstyle to emulate, unfortunately going with …
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It would be easy to make a list of all the things that The Green Hornet does wrong. But for all that it gets wrong, it gets one very important thing right: It’s a whole lot of fun.
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Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy marries girl. Now what? Such is the question posed by Blue Valentine, an unflinching look into the ins and …
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With its all-American family-man hero, hot hacker sidekick, and creepy corporate crook villain, The Cape seems to have a tried and true formula for success. NBC’s newest superhero drama aired …
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SPOILER ALERT! This week’s Top Chef All-Stars was an unseasonably early Restaurant Wars. Some conquered, some were vanquished, and a villain crumbled.
Read MoreThe King’s Speech begins with a microphone. It is a benign image, one that elicits no fear or emotion from the audience. But a moment later, when we see the future King George VI gripped by panic in those anxious final moments before a public performance, the microphone begins to grow as menacing for us as it is for him.
Read MoreSPOILER ALERT! The latest episode of Top Chef: All-Stars found the chefs fishing for their ingredients, and throwing a beach party.
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There is, without a doubt, a generally accepted film-lovers canon. Disregarding the ample bickering amongst ourselves concerning certain entries, the best of these films retain their ability to solicit empathy …
Read MoreIf you want to waste some time and money, watch Gulliver’s Travels.
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After two weeks without a new episode, this week’s Top Chef gave us Chef Tom actually cooking, and the contestants breaking down in Chinatown.
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Walking through the halls of the nearest movie theater, I can’t help but feel like I’m being watched. Stony gazes, serious grimaces and a set of steely eyes stare out …
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