Taking Stock of College As Graduation Nears
As another school year comes to an end, another cohort of students must take stock of their relationship to “the real world.” This is experienced differently for different groups, of course.
Read moreAs another school year comes to an end, another cohort of students must take stock of their relationship to “the real world.” This is experienced differently for different groups, of course.
Read moreRING: “Jumping the Broom” manages to put a creative twist on the conventions of romantic comedy.
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Read moreThe last week of April is, for those in the know, Shakespeare Week: the week when the Bard of Avon was baptized (on April 26, 1564) and died (on April 23, 1616). To my mind, no film released this Shakespeare Week does more to honor his legacy than Justin Lin’s “Fast Five,” the fourth sequel to 2001’s “The Fast and the Furious” and the latest since 2009’s “Fast & Furious.”
Read moreEarth Day has passed once again (let’s hope you planted a tree and picked up some litter this Saturday), but that’s no reason for us to get lax on our personal ecology. Saving the Earth is easy, after all. As a species we may be living at the edge of a precipice, but — if the “Go Green!” boosters are to be believed — there are simple things we can each do every day to avoid a cataclysm.
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Read morePASTICHE: This remake of the 1981 comedy falls short at almost every level imaginable.
Read moreTAROT: The consistently successful Mountain Goats fall flat on their latest album.
Read moreE.T.: The bromance between Nick Frost and Simon Pegg has led to another hilariously nerdy flick.
Read moreThere’s a broad strain of American political discourse that considers race a myth, an illusion that, if we work diligently to expose as false, will wither away into the dustbin of history. A greater and more pernicious one is the old myth of social progress; that racism is a musty old problem that, as time passes, becomes less and less of a vital issue.
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