A host of recent indie films have specialized in caustic characters and unlikable leads. Greenburg, Mother and Child, and Please Give have all featured some of the most unpleasant fictional characters of…
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Rodrigo Garcia’s new film is entitled Mother and Child, but it might more accurately have been called Mother and Daughter, as variations of that freighted relationship play out in the interconnected…
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Apple’s iPhone has been making great strides to prove itself as a legitimate gaming platform. While many of the games for it are casual in nature, others such as Grand Theft…
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As a kid, nothing was better on a very hot and humid summer day in Florida then to swim in our gigantic pool. Since it was Florida, there were many, many…
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With all the craziness of E3 last week, we didn’t get much of a chance to kick back and enjoy our regular dosage of playing games, watching movies or reading comics.…
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By Shannon Hood Reprinted from the SXSW Film Festival, 3/17/2010 Mark and Jay Duplass caused a bit of a commotion at Sundance and SXSW in 2005 when their feature film The…
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Perhaps only New Yorkers can fully appreciate the unique but not uncommon real estate transaction that underlies Nicole Holofcener’s fourth feature film Please Give. Successful dealers in trendy midcentury modern furniture,…
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XBox 360 (Also available on PlayStation 3 and PC) Publisher: SEGA Developer: Obsidian Entertainment $59.99 Score: 7.0 Alpha Protocol is a great example of a game that tries hard to do…