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10/22/2020

Just One More Block

On driving and estrangement

by Carlie Hoffman

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10/22/2018

Watching the Skies

When Star Wars hits too close to home

by Paul Crenshaw

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06/07/2018

The Project Mayhem Age

How Fight Club speaks to our current political landscape

by Daniel Vollaro

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11/13/2017

Flawed Greatness

Beauty and balance in The Searchers

by D.B. Jones

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09/08/2016

No Giggling Ghost

Circumventing dead mom and wife tropes in Louder than Bombs

by Jessa Crispin

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01/04/2013

Miserable at Les Mis

The cinematic adaptation of the broadway play doesn't live up to the hype.

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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09/07/2011

A Question of Timing

Ruins in the Modern Day

by Morgan Meis

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12/08/2009

Marley and Me

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

by Morgan Meis

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