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Actor-director Zach Braff has raised funds for a sophomore directorial effort by circumventing traditional equity financing and appealing directly to fans in a $2 million campaign on the crowdfunding site, Kickstarter. …
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Say what you will about Tom Cruise, former biggest star in the world and current resident alien/troll of America, but the man has always been able to light up a …
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“What do you have to be guilty about?” “I’m a horrible person.” Characters on AMC’s Mad Men are falling back into old patterns, as they have done over and over again. It’s …
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“They ruined it, they ruined everything. I can’t imagine it getting any darker.” The MadCap is back, and the world of Mad Men is a dark one–and getting darker still. Teetering …
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The CW’s The Carrie Diaries borrows the names of the characters of its mega-hit predecessor, but not much else. Although HBO’s flagship series Sex and the City connected with millions of …
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Boom! Wham! Pow! The ComiQuad is a column dedicated to the spandex-laden world of comics and superheroes. It goes up each Wednesday and will alternate between comic book reviews and other comic book news. …
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I Shouldn’t Be Watching This takes a writer who would otherwise have no interest in watching a show and throws them right into it. The aim is to assess how a …
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Over the past ten days or so, in between your spring break beach visits and mixed drinks, you probably checked your Twitter and/or Facebook feeds. You were probably confused as …
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The week of March 8, 2013 is one that I have been awaiting since the early months of 2011, and, although it happened to fall on quite a cluttered academic …
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I Shouldn’t Be Watching This takes a writer who would otherwise have no interest in watching a show and throws them right into it. The aim is to assess how a …
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For last Sunday’s issue, I examined the recent trend in award shows toward the unexciting and traditional and away from the groundbreaking and challenging. This year’s Oscar nominations took a …
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Gerald Peary, film critic and professor of film studies at Boston University, held a rather special cinematheque this past Friday evening. In honor of Black History Month, Peary invited independent …
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