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Shock and Awe Movie Review: An Easily Digestible Bore
Brian Thompson July 15, 2018

Shock and Awe exists exclusively to exploit a market for journalism movies whittled down into easily digestible, unchallenging chunks, à la James Vanderbilt’s 2015 clunker Truth. This heavy-handed pat…

Brian Thompson July 15, 2018
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Movie Review: LBJ
Danielle Solzman November 3, 2017

LBJ is a film that is wholly unnecessary because it’s already been done by way of the 2016 HBO movie, All the Way, starring Bryan Cranston. Woody Harrelson’s performance as Lyndon Johnson …

Danielle Solzman November 3, 2017
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Everything is Copy: Nora Ephron’s Journey in Writing About Her Life
Catherina Gioino March 18, 2016

Heartburn. When Harry Met Sally… . Sleepless in Seattle. Julia & Julia. None of these films would have been had Nora Ephron not wrote—or sometimes directed—them. Ephron wrote articles for the New …

Catherina Gioino March 18, 2016
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TV Review: About a Boy Season 2 Premiere – “About a Vasectomy'”
Kevin Montes October 15, 2014

About a Boy caught me by surprise; in the past week, I’ve binge-watched season one. As a fan of the film, the show had me with doubts from its initial announcement, but watching it I was finding mysel…

Kevin Montes October 15, 2014
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Jon’s Movie Review: “And So It Goes” Takes Us Nowhere
Jon Espino July 26, 2014

For the most part, I take great pleasure in visiting my grandparents. Listening to stories of bygone days, daily struggles made irrelevant by new technologies, and cyclical hardships that seem to echo…

Jon Espino July 26, 2014
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The Top 10 Reasons To Look Forward To The Upcoming Films of 2013
John Rodriguez October 23, 2013

Now that the Summer blockbuster season has been laid to rest, the Fall awards-focused season is taking over. Studios looking to win Oscars for their films like to bundle up as many of their movies lat…

John Rodriguez October 23, 2013
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