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New Year 2021

Thursday, January 28, 2021

‘A jam-packed catalogue’: 8 anticipated films that were pushed from 2020

Collage of eight mentioned movies

Here’s a guide to some of the most exciting 2020 movies that are finally coming out in 2021 after being delayed due to the pandemic.
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Culture Shot

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Tunesday: Gentle acoustic songs to play in a cottage in the woods

With Thanksgiving break upon us, we’re all looking forward to our little moments of escape. While most of us don’t have a woodland paradise to retreat to, this playlist of gentle acoustics and pleasant melodies can help you pretend like you do.
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Film & Television

Monday, May 14, 2018

‘Deadpool 2’ disappoints despite effective laughs

Two years later, “Deadpool 2” doesn’t clear the bar set by its predecessor — it runs right smack into it, colliding with an inglorious thud.
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Film & Television

Friday, February 23, 2018
Annihilation

‘Annihilation’ is enigmatic, engrossing, entirely familiar science fiction

In spite of its standard concoction of arty inactivity and lizard-brain butchery, “Annihilation” makes an effort to stand out from the sci-fi genre.
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Culture Shot

Monday, February 19, 2018

Picks of the week: Music festivals, arcade olympics and defying gravity

Whether you choose to attend concerts all around the Bay, compete in a nerdier Winter Olympics or marvel at aerial stunts, our picks have you covered.
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Innovation 2017

Friday, May 26, 2017

An arbitrary ranking of movies about innovation

The fear of the future and messing with the “natural order” of things has been inspiration for a whole range of movies, ranging from terrible, Luddite-like fantasies to movies questioning humanity and its relation to science.
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Film & Television

Thursday, April 20, 2017

‘The Promise’ shares important story of genocide, suffers from distracting love triangle

There’s a realism and grit missing from “The Promise,” and it hurts the audience’s ability to connect to the horror of the crisis.
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Film & Television

Monday, April 17, 2017

How ‘The Promise’ brings historical atrocity to big screen: An interview with producer Eric Esrailian

Regardless of the film’s performance, its existence fosters global recognition and awareness about an oft-neglected piece of history.
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Film & Television

Friday, January 20, 2017

M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Split’ is sometimes goofy, sometimes thrilling, but always engaging

Writer and director M. Night Shyamalan has had a rocky career, to say the least. He’s been called “the next Spielberg,” and is the man behind the classic “The Sixth Sense” as well as one of the best comic book movies of all time, “Unbreakable.” But Shyamalan went on to
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