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Mini-Review of "Life and Death in the Third Reich"

We're told you're supposed to read history, but I swear you could read a library of books about World War 2, and know an awful lot about narrative pleasures, but not a wit about anything that would...

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"That's My Boy" -- Review

Adam Sandler deserves credit for being angry that a culture he grew up knowing pleasures from, has essentially been demarcated subsequently as something you can only bring up with shame.  The really...

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More cuts, please: Current films and our self-torture

If you’re like me and you’re beginning to notice a lot of evil being passed off as innocuous, just a joke, or even as good, and you’re wondering why this has become so widespread, why people are doing...

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"Brave" is brave, but leaves the significant tear unattended

Andrew O’Hehir at Salon has suggested that Brave, however feminist, doesn’t really undermine patriarchy – the daughter weaves a spell of command and rhetoric to sway them to her side, but ultimately...

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A thought on "Drive"

Having Ryan Gosling's character -- the driver -- put on a non-emotive, unrevealing mask while killing Ron Perlman's Nino, was an interesting touch.  His character is so seeminly non-plussed, near...

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