The inexplicably popular geek sitcom has announced that its 12th season will be its last. Its demise should come as a relief to everybody. Listen carefully. Can you hear it? Can you hear the sound of utter jubilation in the streets? The sighs of relief? The happy tears of joy? If you can’t hear it […]
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Just a little over a year ago, many of us marveled at the impressive manner in which Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 concluded its momentous film series. A popular children’s franchise, after some awkward first steps, had grown up and into a dark, twisted epic and concluded with breathtaking finality, its young actors […]
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Over the course of the 15 years between Toy Story and Toy Story 3, Pixar Animation Studios underwent a monumental evolution from a computer firm taking its first steps into animation to an industry-changing powerhouse. Over the nine years between How to Train Your Dragon and the new trilogy-capper How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, DreamWorks Animation went through […]
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For fans and critics alike, Brokeback Mountain will forever be known as the “gay cowboy” movie. Almost invariably, the emphasis will be placed on the first half of that label–and understandably so: The love, briefly indulged and long inhibited, between Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist is the narrative and emotional core of the film and of […]
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