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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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On Screens & Esteem
One day this summer, sitting in a blank white apartment that was not mine, I felt a strange weariness. This apartment was full of more books than I will probably ever read and I had fellowships to apply to and emails to write and the whole Internet in front of me and all of New…
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La La Land’s Nostalgia
“It follows a struggle we have all faced: if you love the past, how do you approach the future?”
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The Movies, Today
__WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS__ Having been cryogenically frozen at the end of _Wall Street_, Kirk “Michael” Douglas has returned to wreak havok on this new, technologically advanced century with ’80s know-how and slick suspenders. As any movie buff would know, this premise is a direct rip-off of _Jason X_, the one where Jason kills…
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You’re Christopher Robin and Don’t You Forget It
On the collision course of youthful innocence and adulthoods muted palette.
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Licorice Pizza: An Ode to Young Love and Cinema in the San Fernando Valley
A Nass writer looks at the newest film from Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Top 30 DVDs on Your Dog’s Netflix Queue
1. Beethoven’s 5th 2. Marley and Me 3. World War II: When Lions Roared 4. Air Bud 5. Homeward Bound 6. Beethoven’s Big Break 7. Turner and Hooch 8. World War II: Air War 9. White Fang 10. My Life as a Dog 11. Shiloh 12. Benji 13. Driving in Cars with Dogs 14. World…
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A History of Silence: Elision and Destruction in the New Mexican Landscape
“There’s power in not having to care. As Inez Guzmán remarks, the film Oppenheimer can leave New Mexico just as its subject did: apparently without a second thought. But there’s also power—more ambivalent, yes, but also more lasting—that comes with needing to pick up the pieces.”
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Meetin’ WA
As often as my pocketbook and homework allow, I go to New York City to the movies. I come from Kentucky, a place that neither can nor does sate my appetite for cinema. There are no festivals, no repertory theatres, no arthouses; there are only blockbusters, and great movies can’t be seen but on the…