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Reason to Believe

It may be an advantage not to be an X-File-o-phile. If, like me, you have seen no more than a handful of episodes from the nine-season TV series, and you have only the vaguest recollection of ...

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Blackout

When the smoke clears, The Dark Knight should emerge as just another comic-book movie, the fourth of the summer (Hancock wasn’t based on a comic book too, was it?), avowedly “darker” than the others, certainly ...

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Cultural Contamination

If Tell No One does not give us what we expect and want from a French thriller, part of the reason must lie in its source, an American mystery novel by Harlan Coben. I read ...

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A Fistful of Dollars, The Best of Youth, Caterina in the Big City

Victor Laruccia Managing director and board member, San Diego Italian Film Festival The 2008 San ...

My Dinner with Andre, The Incredibles, Pulp Fiction

Jung-Ho Pak Artistic director/conductor, San Diego Chamber Orchestra 2001 is an example of how to ...

The Kid, Public Enemy, Sunset Boulevard

Guy HanfordOwner, Kensington Video For Father’s Day, here are two dearly loved movies that I ...

Dune, Planet Terror, Deep Blue Sea

Lady BotoxFilm critic, soberingconclusion.com The 2006 re-release of David Lynch’s Dune contains both the extended ...

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