Whit Stillman goes back to school with Damsels in Distress.
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So many peculiar and archaic sights in Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress,
yet I keep thinking about the artichokes. They sit steaming in a
kitchen pot as a trio of undergraduates at Seven Oaks
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The most interesting thing about history is always the
“what if.” What if, for example, Edgar Allan Poe were actually a
dashingly romantic, goateed action hero shaped like John Cusack, who
g
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Fake It So Real
At a time
when it’s become perfectly acceptable for an adult to get a tattoo of a
Stormtrooper, the last true outcast culture left in America just might
be professional
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Why is this festival not like every other festival?
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Of all the annual cinematic celebrations of group
identity, the Jewish film festival seems the least necessary. Call me
self-loathing, but I do not think my ancestors have been
underrepresented
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Trannysnatchers is for the children. The weird children.
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Slitting the little old church lady’s throat was a cathartic moment for Caedmon Jamonsta. It happens about two-thirds of the way into Trannysnatchers, a locally produced horror-comedy&nb
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Of all the martyr figures in 20th-century
pop music, death did Bob Marley the greatest disservice. Succumbing to
cancer in 1981, the reggae icon exited the planet a Third World demigod,
but post
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This is a review of The Cabin In The Woods. Proceed with caution.
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How does someone in my position discuss The Cabin in the Woods?
It’s a movie whose deliberately veiled marketing campaign insists
critics tiptoe...
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Hell is other children, as anyone who came of age in the
public school system is well aware. For the average kid, absorbing
cruelty from one’s peers is just an accepted part of growing up. In
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Blue Like Jazz
Blue Like Jazz is an odd beast: a pro-Christian movie condemned by multiple evangelical groups, an earnest and often affecting Igby Goes Down
for the puppeteering-for-Christ set. The
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It turns out the heart does go on.
This week, Titanic
becomes the latest cash cow to be re-milked in 3-D. The release will
cause slight heart palpitations in some people and a twinge of bi
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