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Rashida Jones Co-Writes, Stars in Tale of Life After Love
The credit sequence offers snapshots of the meet-cute, the courtship and the marriage of best friends, Celeste (Rashida Jones) and …
ParaNorman
Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) really sees dead people and they happen to be his only friends in the world. …
Believe in the Oddity of This Wonderful Life
Film is all about making us believe in the magic, the fantasies we have to leave behind once we come …
Little Miss Ruby Sparks
I would like to nominate the summer of 2012 as the season of speculative science fiction and fantasy. Art house …
Monsieur Lazhar
Canada’s Foreign Language Film nominee from writer-director Philippe Falardeau loosely falls in the dramedy genre because this tale about Bashir …
An Old Angel Looks Homeward
Film, as a medium, provides writers and directors the opportunity to tell great stories. But sometimes, as is the case …
Benh Zeitlin’s Feature Debut Refuses to Tame the Beasts
Hushpuppy (dazzling yet likely to be overpraised six-year-old newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis) tells it like it is, like only a six-year-old …
TWC On Demand: A Sad and Intimate Dance
A slow week at area theaters will send you scurrying to all corners for any fleeting sign of life, and …
The Eternal Absurdity of Woody Allen
What an amazing run Woody Allen has enjoyed over the last decade or so. Actually, during the last 20 years, …
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