The Roots of Jack and Those Beans
That tagline — “You don’t know Jack” — is going to be run into the ground over the course of …
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The Invisible Keep on Fighting
Military affairs dominate national discourse and have for more than a decade now. Two foreign wars, looming nuclear threats, unrest …
A Royal Affair
Niels Arcel, best known in the U.S. as one of the screenwriters on the original The Girl With the Dragon …
The First Fun Supernatural Teen Romance
By all accounts, authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl have fashioned a more literate set of romantic teen stories, beginning …
Grumpy Old Warriors Shuffle off the Box Office Radar
Danny Glover was 41 years old when he first expressed exasperation over his age in Lethal Weapon, although it should …
Social Media as Cocktail Party Chit Chat
A new study from GlobalWebIndex posted on MediaBistro.com reports that Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012, fighting …
Writer-Director Michael Haneke Puts Love to a Most Brutal Test
Amour, the brave new film from Michael Haneke, is a story that speaks to the notion and philosophies espoused by …
DVD/Blu-Ray Highlights From Across the Spectrum for the Start of 2013
Beauty Is Embarrassing: The Wayne White Story Sometimes the true pleasure of a film, especially a documentary, is having the …
(Lack of) Appreciation for the Complexities
I swear there are days when it would be best to turn off the television, stay away from computers, the …
Jacques Audiard’s New Drama Uncovers Wounded Souls in Harsh Conditions
Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) epitomizes what we, Westernized, sheltered middle-class citizens, imagine when someone references brutes, bruisers or brutish behavior. Hip-Hop …
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