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The Way Way Back
Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, Oscar winners for the screenplay of "The Descendants," have written, produced, and directed an endearing coming-of-age story called "The Way Way Back," appearing in it as well....
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The Sword in the Stone
Disney is celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of its animated classics with a beautiful new Blu-Ray edition. Based on Read the full post here »
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The Jungle Book
The last animated film personally overseen by Walt Disney is "The Jungle Book," inspired by the Rudyard Kipling story of a boy abandoned in the forest who is raised by the animals. It has some of the...
View ArticleA Birder’s Guide to Everything
First rule: do NOT call them bird watchers. These are seriously ornithophilic teenagers and the correct term is "birder." Maybe one reason they like birds so much is that the three members of the high...
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How to Train Your Dragon 2
"How to Train Your Dragon 2" is all fans of the original were hoping and has a good shot at being not just the best animated film of the year but one of the best in any category and for any age. The...
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Boyhood
"A boy's will is the wind's will/And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." (Longfellow) We first see Mason (Ellar Coltrane) lying on the ground, looking up at the sky, and it is clear that...
View ArticleInside Out
Roger Ebert liked to refer to movies as an "empathy machine." He said that the great gift of movies, more than any other art form, is the way they can put us inside the world, experiences, culture, and...
View ArticleMr. Church
Eddie Murphy gives a thoughtful, nuanced, sensitive performance in a film that suffers from a too-predictable script and suffers even more from very bad timing. Director Bruce Beresford picked the...
View ArticleMiddle School: The Worst Years of My Life
This just might be the most accurate movie title of all time. Middle school is pretty much the worst years of everyone's life. Terrible stress and tragedy happens at all ages, but it is the years from...
View ArticleThe Edge of Seventeen
A psychiatrist once told me that just as an infant can have fevers that would be lethal in an adult, a teenager can have symptoms that would be evidence of psychosis at any other stage of life. Mood...
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