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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Final Destination 4 in 3D: Movie Review
Associated Content Movie Review: source August 28, 2009 by Robert Dougherty The Final Destination 4 review count is only going up tonight, as Final Destination 4 reviews were embargoed before today. Each Final Destination 4 review was held back before release, making The Final Destination 4 reviews just like that of another horror sequel, Halloween [...]
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
The Kennedy Legacy: RIP Ted Kennedy
http://www.tedkennedy.org RIP Ted Kennedy. May the Kennedy Legacy never be forgotten and may it continue for generations to come. source President Obama: Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, Senator Ted Kennedy. For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, [...]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
“Inglourious Basterds” directed by Quentin Tarantino
Review by Roger Ebert: Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” is a big, bold, audacious war movie that will annoy some, startle others and demonstrate once again that he’s the real thing, a director of quixotic delights. For starters (and at this late stage after the premiere in May at Cannes, I don’t believe I’m spoiling anything), [...]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
“Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia Davis
Barnes and Noble Review: Swann’s Way is the first novel of Marcel Proust’s seven-volume magnum opus À la recherche du temps perdu, or Remembrance of Things Past. Following the narrator’s opening ruminations about the nature of sleep is one of twentieth-century literature’s most famous scenes: the eating of the madeleine soaked in a “decoction of [...]
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Roger Ebert’s Review: The climactic scene in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” takes place in one of those underground caverns with a lake and an ominous gondola as the means of transportation, popularized by “The Phantom of the Opera.” At first I thought — no gondola! But then, one appeared, dripping and hulking. In [...]
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Movie Review: District 9
Roger Ebert’s Review: I suppose there’s no reason the first alien race to reach the Earth shouldn’t look like what the cat threw up. After all, they love to eat cat food. The alien beings in “District 9,” nicknamed “prawns” because they look like a cross between lobsters and grasshoppers, arrive in a space ship [...]
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Editor’s Review From Publishers Weekly Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer’s bestselling Everything Is Illuminated, is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of Illuminated, Oskar turns his naïvely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the [...]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Synopsis: With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man — also named Jonathan Safran Foer — sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; [...]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Synopsis: From The Washington Post This extraordinary work of fiction about the German occupation of France is embedded in a real story as gripping and complex as the invented one. Composed in 1941-42 by an accomplished writer who had published several well-received novels, Suite Française, her last work, was written under the tremendous pressure of [...]
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Love is a Dog From Hell:Poems, 1974- 1977 by Charles Bukowski
Review: Well it was a book of poems written by Charles Bukowski from 1974-1977, when he was around 55. Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Bukowski’s writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los [...]
