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Praise the Lord & Miller Department: The Fifth Anniversary of CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
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The Perverse Satire of HUSTLER WHITE
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The Honesty of Death in LILTING
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Gia (1998)
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The Shadow of Lifetime looms over KELLY & CAL
The designation of Lifetime Original Movies is possibly single-handedly responsible for the ghettoization of the…
THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE, or: Disney’s Fractured Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, in the far-off land of Burbank, California, there was an animation…
Mark Whitacre: INFORMANT!
“There should be a TV show about a guy who calls home one day and…
ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD: THE MOVIE
There is a lot of negativity on the internet. That’s an understatement – the internet…
ZERO CHARISMA: “You’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole.”
One of the staples of geek life is the alpha-wannabe male. You know the type;…