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Double Indemnity (1944): a review

A hardboiled summer calls for an equally hardboiled movie, and few movies are more hardboiled than Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir classic,...
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Summer Movie Guide Part 1

It is the beginning of June and with the start of a new month comes new movies. However, we are in a season of movies – the summer season;...
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Snow White and the Huntsman : A Dark, Grim Take On The Fairy Tale Classic.

Universal's dark twist on the fairy tale story of Snow White in the new film, "Snow White and the Huntsman" certainly starts off...
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Opening this Weekend: Moonrise Kingdom and High School

Also out this weekend is a movie in limited release and one released last week now opening in Boston. I’ll start with the second film....
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Opening this Weekend: Snow White and the Huntsman

So far this year we already had one version of Snow White, the Julia Roberts film Mirror, Mirror which didn’t do so well at the box office....
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'The Disco Exorcist' doesn't live up to its grindhouse standards

There are very few films released these days which legitimately echo the glory days of "grindhouse" cinema.Oftentimes, filmmakers lose...
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For Greater Glory : An Epic Attempt To Tell Compelling History That Falls Short.

As the closing credits rolled on the new film, "For Greater Glory" about Mexico's Cristero War of the late 1920's, I found myself...
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Men in Black III: A sequel with a soul

Men in Black III has heart. It cares about its characters and makes us care about them too. When one of the main characters' life is in danger...
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Just a movie or a metaphor? AT DAWN by Rodrigo Lopez

  • AT DAWN
  • May 30, 2012
As you drive up Mass Ave in Boston just before the bridge to MIT, there is a small sign bearing the legend, “If you see something say...
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Why Massachusetts Needs a Studio

It had been a couple months since I was on a movie set, but last week I was called in to play a KMart shopper for Grown Ups 2. It’s not much,...
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