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ParaNorman’s Activity
All right! This is how I like my animated kids’ movies — intelligent, funny, and scary enough to keep you up at night. ParaNorman...
The Lego Batman Movie: Everything Is Batman
A lot of things have made the recent DC Comics movies look bad, but nothing has made them look worse than The Lego Batman...
Turn the Page(s)
Librarians and Hollywood types don’t tend to intermingle. One group focuses on details and research, and the other exists primarily to stretch the truth,...
Blogging “Django Unchained” (The Tennessee Chapters)
Part 1 is here.
• In some sheltered rocky campsite on the road to Tennessee, Dr. Schultz is taking his clothes down from a laundry...
R.I.P. Brittany Murphy
I got knocked back by the news that Brittany Murphy has died at the age of 32, apparently of natural causes. She had a...
Passengers: Wake-Up Call
Like La La Land, the deluxe yet minimalist space opera Passengers brings together a simple concept, an Oscar-nominated director, and two of American cinema’s...
Maestro: It’s All Just Music
And now, an apocryphal story about Leonard Bernstein. Some 40 years ago, he conducted a Mozart piece at the Grammy Awards ceremony, and after...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
Hey, look! It’s an Oscar ceremony in March, just like we used to have every year. With all the attention on the Best Picture...
Today Was a Fairytale
Way back before Disney rejuvenated itself by making animated musicals based on fairy tales sprinkled with witty songs, adult concerns, and a wisecracking modern...
Film Shorts
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Bitter Harvest (PG-13) Max Irons stars in this thriller set in the 1930s as a Ukrainian artist who resists when the Soviet Union carries...
