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Chicken for Linda!

By Sumner Forbes | April 2024

Sometimes, children are inconsolable. They want what they want, and there’s nothing that can calm them down until they get it. As…

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Sometimes, children are inconsolable. They want what they want, and there’s nothing that can calm them down until they get it. As exhausted parents, it...

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We're rapidly heading toward the centennial of the Second Great War's beginning, and every year is rife with a handful of films that are about the war in...

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Every so often, we see films with a social realist tinge that wallop us with their affecting quality. In Silver Haze, writer-director Sacha Polak...

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SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! For those of us who’ve traveled abroad, it’s hard not to feel like a stranger in a strange land at times. Different...

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It's a brave new world. Last year, the entertainment world here in the States was consumed by the Writers Guild strike, which was followed soon after by...

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We’ve all seen relationships that are doomed for failure from the start. Whether we say anything or not, an ugly end is inevitable when we see a certain...

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Show writer-director Austin Smagalski's To Die Alone to any REI regular, and they’ll tell you to avoid hiking alone. This indie gem shows us that wiser...

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Prison films have long been a fixture of cinema, and the tried-and-true formula has resulted in some legendary films. Something about individuals being at...

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