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Dec
21

ALL ALONE FOR CHRISTMAS

Alone in God’s Home The unwavering popularity of the Home Alone films (Home Alone and Home Alone 2) is
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Dec
19

ODE TO JOHN

For Better, for Worse I recently wrote a piece about how one subtextual reading of Hitchcock’s Notorious functions as
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Dec
18

BACK FOR GOOD

There are few episodes in the history of television as faultlessly perfect as The Office two-episode Christmas Special, which manages
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Dec
17

OVERLOOKING THE OVERLOOK

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) is so embedded in popular culture—probably now more so than ever—that it
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Dec
16

I WON'T SHED A TEAR

“The Bible says, ‘In the midst of life we are in death,’” — Mr. Quidaciolu (Stand By Me). The tragic irony
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Dec
11

MY BABY SHOT ME DOWN

If Beatrix Kiddo, a.k.a. The Bride, played by Uma Thurman in Quentin Tarantino's martial-arts extravaganza Kill
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Dec
05

SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME

On June 2, 1962, Frank Sinatra paid a visit to the RNIB Sunshine House School for Blind Children in Northwood,
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Dec
03

SQUEALER

Though George Orwell's 1984 gets the lion’s share of comparisons with our modern dystopian digital age, Animal
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Dec
01

FULLY ROASTED

Up there with Richard Burton's legendary reading of Under Milk Wood and Laurence Olivier's iconic rendition
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Nov
30

THE SHOW MUST GO ON

Rosencrantz: Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In
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