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'Dear Mr. Watterson'
The 'Bigfoot' of comic artists
Calvin and Hobbes may be the world’s last great household names in cartoon strip characters: the last universally known and universally loved ink, paper, and watercolor world we’ll ever fall into.
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Relâche and 'The Lodger' at the Penn Museum
Old movie, new music
Live music by Relâche enhances enjoyment of Hitchcock's first hit, the silent film The Lodger.
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'The Bletchley Circle'
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No – it’s crime-fighting women!
Ultimately, the series is not about the crimes being solved but rather the true identities of these extraordinary women. Each of them is forced to live a lie, pretending to be the helpless, hapless stereotypes that the male-dominated society of the time forced them to play.
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The female antihero on television
Sisters are doing it for themselves
Right now, there’s a crop of TV shows that both pass the Bechdel test and feature female characters who would feel right at home with Jax Teller and Walter White.
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The Fall 2014 TV season
Geek Wonderland
As a lifelong geek, I consider this to be the Golden Age of television. Of all the choices on TV (and let’s face it, there are a lot of choices), geek programs as a rule have a higher level of writing and production values than your average cop show or prime-time soap opera.
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'Under the Skin' and 'Only Lovers Left Alive'
New takes on horror
Genre films are not just for hacks — well-regarded indie directors Jonathan Glazer and Jim Jarmusch try their hands at horror.
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This is my design: The horror of 'Hannibal'
The viewer of Hannibal enters a world where the most horrifying aspects of being a human being are explored. Our bodies are fragile, our minds vulnerable. We are easy prey for a nearly omnipotent devil such as Hannibal Lecter.
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Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’
How did ‘Noah’ offend you? Here are a few suggestions
Darren Aronofsky's Noah has something to offend — or at least disappoint — just about everyone. Why no animals enjoying a turn around the deck, Darren?
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'Blue Is the Warmest Color' and 'The Great Beauty'
The view from Europe
Blue Is the Warmest Color and The Great Beauty make excellent companion pieces, presenting a surfeit of gorgeous filmmaking as they bookend two lives in advanced industrial democracies.
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Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' (second review)
Inside a Central European snow globe
The Grand Budapest Hotel is no different from Wes Anderson’s other films — it is visually stunning and quite funny, but there is nothing at the center.
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