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Film & Television

Sunday, February 25, 2018

‘Game Night’ is airy farce that earns belly laughs despite thin characters

Hopper Stone / SMPSP/Courtesy

It’s an admirable flagship in the tradition of big laugh-inducing American farces, the kind that eschews specificity in favor of jokes that skew broad.
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Culture Shot

Monday, July 24, 2017

Daily Cal Arts’ 10 films to see in theaters this week

It’s the height of summer, but theaters around the Bay Area are currently resplendent in a wide variety of amazing pictures right now, from tentpole superhero movies to quiet, meditative micro-budget films
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Film & Television

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Marvel’s ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ puts the amazing back in Spider-Man

The normalcy of Peter Parker (excellently portrayed by bright-eyed Tom Holland) carries this film and helps create a new blueprint for superhero movies — movies more interested in the lives of all of the people, rather than the spectacle of putting those lives at stake.
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