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The Yellow Birds Movie Review: An Inoffensive but Redundant Mess
Gary Shannon June 15, 2018

The Yellow Birds begins with a tranquil image of flowing water, followed by a graceful camera pan over American troops marching cautiously over a war-ravaged Iraqi landscape. It’s an unusually peacefu…

Gary Shannon June 15, 2018
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SDCC ’17: Warner Brothers Blows the Roof Off with DC, Blade Runner 2049 and Ready Player One 
Michael Fairbanks July 22, 2017

After today’s WB panel, one thing is clear. Warner Bros Pictures is not taking the success of  Wonder Woman lying down. Their panel, presented with a giant panoramic screen, oozed with confident energ…

Michael Fairbanks July 22, 2017
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SDCC ’17: Watch the first teaser for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One
Allyson Johnson July 22, 2017

The science fiction genre these days is littered with remakes, reboots, sequels and genre hybrids, and so rarely does something that feels fresh come to the forefront. Not to say that the sci-fi genre…

Allyson Johnson July 22, 2017
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Movie Review: ‘Dark Places’
Ivanna Barrera August 8, 2015

Dark Places is about Libby Day (Charlize Theron), whose family was brutally murdered on their Kansas farm. Her brother was charged for the crime at the age sixteen. Libby’s confused confession and rum…

Ivanna Barrera August 8, 2015
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Allyson’s Movie Review: ‘Mud’
Allyson Johnson April 26, 2013

Mud is an odyssey through a young boy’s earliest loss of innocence. It’s about an adolescent’s first lesson in the grief that can follow love, the violence that can follow a hero, the murky gray that …

Allyson Johnson April 26, 2013
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