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Wet, Hot, Senile Summer
A consideration of suburbia and its inhabitants in relation to the American Dream.
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The Movies, Today
*OUR FAMILY WEDDING* Are we so quick to forget the lessons of West Side Story? Latinos and blacks are natural enemies. When they fall in love, their families will inevitably feud, and it will be sassy as hell. YOU KNEW THIS WHEN YOU STARTED DATING, ATTRACTIVE INTERRACIAL COUPLE. YOU MUST HAVE.
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Bone Tomahawk
In a filmmaking era when movies are increasingly designed, focus-tested, and audience-approved to please, “Bone Tomahawk” is strangely refreshing for refusing us our simple pleasures.
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The Movies, Today!
__REPO MEN__ Repo Men is about a guy who does a thing with a partner in a dystopian future who fucks up that thing and then has to fight against his partner and, indeed, the whole of society, for the sake of truth. You might remember this movie as _District 9_, _Equilibrium_, the video game…
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12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is tense and unflinching. Its relentless intensity and graphic brutality has been the defining feature in the media, but it is also an essential part of the film and the primary reason it could become the most important portrait of American slavery yet on camera.
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Something Like Plot
A review of an experimental film entitled The Hart of London. It’s avant-garde and philosophical, but never boring.
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Oeuvre Reviews: Josh Malina in “View From The Top”
A Nass writer takes another dive into the work of her favorite B-list actor.
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Tiny Audience
Lena Dunham, a 23-year-old filmmaker from New York who has a degree in film studies from Oberlin, plays Aura, a 22-year-old Oberlin grad with a “useless” film studies degree, in Lena Dunham’s first feature as a director, _Tiny Furniture_, written by: Lena Dunham. _Tiny Furniture_ is the story of Aura and her attempt, immediately after…
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Love or Nothing
Shakespeare asks the big questions and sometimes he answers them. In Romeo and Juliet he asks about love, often.
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An Orientalist Fantasy
But the more I thought about this movie, the more I realized it simply gives an illusion of depth. A movie filmed with somewhat unconventional techniques, or featuring naturalistic dialogue and little plot, is automatically assumed to be “artsy” and thus philosophical, by association with the style of the French New Wave.