The American | Director Anton Corbijn | Score: 6.1 Appropriately enough, the vast majority of guns in this American assassin abroad film are equipped with silencers, the bullets barely make a sound before slicing through their given targets. The film follows suit. In what could only be described as a deliberate pace, with great...
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Paul Collins – The King of Power Pop! (Alive Natural Sound Records – 2010) 3 out of 4 **** Paul Collins’ new record, The King of Power Pop!, is better than any Paul Collins record circa 2010 has a right to be. That is not to say it is an excellent record. His choice...
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Hmmmm. Back to school. A topic fraught with pride, expectation, a little fear, and a sense of inevitablility. All I can convey to you is my experience from my not so typical perspective on the subject. Some background. My daughter Elizabeth and I are unusually close. I had her late in life, an only...
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While attending your average summer party, a rising college sophomore like myself will be asked the same two questions perpetually throughout the evening: One, “How was your first year at college?” and two, “are you excited to be going back to school?”. In an attempt to spare my acquaintance from the bursting floodgates of...
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct | Director Jean-François Richet | Score: 7.6 Jacques Mesrine was a renowned gangster in France, well-known for his brutal murders, kidnapping, bank robberies and extortion in the ’60s and ’70s, but made legendary for his sneering arrogance and ultra-confident air, a combination of Dillinger and Liam Gallagher. As portrayed by Vincent...
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The school year comes to an end, only creating new beginnings. With a rush to move all of our belongings from our apartments things become fuzzy with one object clearly in focus…our departure. As with any big trip there is always something to slow you down; a small delay on cosmetic body work on...
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About six months back, I did a post on a vegetarian restaurant called Thoreau. While Thoreau is no longer in existence, the owner’s original spot, Blue Sage, is alive, well, and amazing. Blue Sage was a saving grace for me as a teenager. As a vegetarian in the Philadelphia suburbs, there weren’t many options around. When Blue Sage...
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Editors note: This is a dream many of us have had. To take some time to travel across the United States in a Volkswagen van with some friends. The romance with the road is as old as the horse! Steve Funk and his friends are going to share this journey with us. So without...
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Agora | Director Alejandro Amenábar | Score: 6.0 During intermission of a play on an ancient stage in 300 A.D. Alexandria, a young philosophy student suddenly stands up before the crowd. Pledging his love and devotion to his beautiful philosophy professor, he begins to play a kind of ancient recorder in her honor. As...
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The Kids Are All Right | Director Lisa Cholodenko | Score: 7.4 The characters and lives in Lisa Cholodenko’s films always appear fully realized and well-lived in, like a closet filled with slightly wrinkled and worn clothes. Her previous works, including Dinner Party, High Art and Laurel Canyon all gather their estimable power from...
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