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Beautiful Creatures

Based on the Young Adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is a supernatural love story much in the vein of Twilight but with witches rather than vampires. Set in the deep south, where civil war re-enactments are the highlight of life, the soon to be witch Lena moves to town and […]

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Margaret Atwood

Sitting in the audience before this lecture, there was Miles Davis music playing over the PA system and the man behind me reeked of aftershave. I was teleported back to 1985 when I listened to Miles Davis on a regular basis, smelled aftershave on boys, and was given The Handmaid’s Tale as a birthday gift. It

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Painfully Camp

Occasionally one needs to see an awful movie just as a point of reference for all the good ones. I had to watch Battleship, the board game inspired movie, because It had Alexander Skarsgård in it It was nominated for multiple Razzie Awards including worst director, worst supporting actress, worst actress, worst screenplay, worst screen

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Life of Pi

Cinematic beauty. Life of Pi is a well crafted story executed with brilliant direction by Ang Lee. I saw the 2-D version and can only imagine how much more stunning this would be in 3-D. In my quest for seeing Oscar nominated movies, I took Son to see the movie. I gave him the option

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