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‘Man of Steel’: Truth, Justice and the Kryptonian Way
For years, continuing on the legacy Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster began in 1938 has been a tricky matter. While the tagline for the first big movie based on their work asserted we would believe a man can fly, another...
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‘Monsters University’ Scares Up an Enjoyable but Inferior Prequel
In 2001, Pixar (still in its infancy) released their fright-tastic Monsters, Inc. and introduced us to a world where the screams of little children were harvested as an energy source for the city of Monstropolis,...
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Primary Colors: Orly Genger’s ‘Red, Yellow and Blue’
It was a rainy day across New York’s five boroughs — nothing new, considering a steel-studded sky had covered the Northeast for what seemed like a hundred years of glum. But unlike any of the dozen days...
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‘Far From Heaven’: The Music of What Happens
To most, the Fabulous Fifties bring to mind images of girls in poodle skirts and pancake makeup, diners and juke boxes, a time when Elvis first gyrated into our living rooms on TV and being named prom queen was the...
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‘This Is the End’ Burns Bright at the End of the World
Who knew the end of the world, with all the proverbial fire and brimstone, could be so hysterical. At least that’s how it’s made to seem in This Is the End, a rousing and shamelessly hilarious end-of-days comedy...
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‘Maniac:’ A Visceral Trip through the Macabre
They say it’s often times the quiet ones. The ones you would never expect. The ones that seem harmless. Maniac’s Frank Zito (Elijah Wood) is one of “those.” The lone owner of a mannequin restoration shop,...
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Putting the Cajun in Rock ‘n’ Roll: Mama Rosin Explains How the Bayou Gets To Switzerland, And Back Stateside Again
A Mama Rosin concert is nothing less than a party; a party spent taking in the rhythmic swell of the accordion, the euphoric hoots of fans and musicians alike, and the singers’ boisterous, feedback-filled vocals...
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The ICP Triennial: A Different Kind of Disorder
Alternately beautiful, bombastic and occasionally brilliant, the International Center of Photography’s current exhibit, A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, features 28 emerging and established artists...
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‘The Dinner’: A Deliciously Appetizing Look into a Parental Nightmare: A Conversation with Author Herman Koch
In 2012, we were enthralled with American writer Gillian Flynn’s thriller novel, Gone Girl, published by Crown Publishing; a story that focused on whether or not the main character, Nick Dunne, murdered his wife....
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‘The Internship’ Is a Lot of Work with Minimal Payoff
There is no accounting for taste in The Internship, a heinously self-indulgent, two-hour commercial for Google that just so happens to star Wedding Crashers funnymen Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as two 40-something...
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