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On Movies & Media

A Three-Star Rant About Thumbs

I want to read perspectives and interpretations... not assessments of "I liked it" or "It sucked." When I was a child watching Siskel and Ebert, the thumbs-up/thumbs-down was a suspenseful gimmick; I couldn't wait to see the sparks fly when the critics' thumb-ation of the film put them odds. But it
04 Oct 2012 8 min read
On Movies & Media

Really, MPAA?

Before I start describing the MPAA with language they would consider inappropriate, I'll just hand the microphone over to Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, whose film Blue Valentine was just rated NC-17. Why was it given that rating? It might have been the film's raw love
18 Nov 2010 1 min read
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