7 tips to help you get over the middle-of-finals-week slump

It’s the middle of finals week — either you’re just starting to take finals, or, for those specially chosen ones, you might already be done.
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It’s the middle of finals week — either you’re just starting to take finals, or, for those specially chosen ones, you might already be done.
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Not to mention that when Allen was almost ousted from Hollywood after he sexually abused his seven-year-old-daughter, Weinstein agreed to distribute “Bullets Over Broadway.” Yep, you read that right. Weinstein was the man who gave Allen his career back.
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And while Vaughn has packed plenty of ass-kicking into his 2-hour, 21-minute behemoth of a sequel, it’s Vaughn himself who’s had his ass kicked this time around.
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As an independently financed and distributed film, “Logan Lucky” proves that good ole fashioned, intelligently made, economical mid-budget movies can provide more entertainment value than overstuffed blockbusters.
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But it’s this frustratingly juvenile tone and repeated employment of a low-brow, penis-joke brand of comedy that make “CHIPS” such a formulaic, exhausting experience.
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The minute you walk into a party thrown by a Filipino family, you’ll see three things: a smorgasbord of food, a humongous pile of shoes in the foyer and a Magic Mic. The first Magic Mic I knew wasn’t Channing Tatum. For most people, the Magic Mic is an innocent,
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“Hail, Caesar!” is not so much a film as it is a tapestry, woven with the golden thread of 1950s cinema. It’s not quite a film about films; rather, it’s a film about the things that films are about. It is a kaleidoscope of the surfaces in films, of everything
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As far as the Wachowski siblings have ever been concerned, subtlety ranks among the most spectacular wastes of screen time. The directors’ impatience about pacing and minute details has played out to their advantage in the past — take “The Matrix” for instance, which jumped from one vast idea to
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Comedy relies on two main factors: originality and shock. The necessity of these two vital characteristics to make the genre truly vibrant and, well, comedic, has rendered comedy sequels ineffective and even embarrassing (let’s not get started on “The Hangover” sequels), for the very definition of a sequel and the
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If your Netflix queue has been in a bit of a summer slump, don’t fear! The prizewinners of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival were announced last week, which means there is a treasure trove of soon-to-be-released films from around the world awaiting you. Here are five of those films to
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