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’47 Meters Down’ serves up shark scares for summer

In Movies & TV by April SnellingsJune 21, 2017leave a COMMENT

If we’re lucky, the summer movie season offers up at least one sturdy shark thriller that isn’t a Syfy-branded exercise in schlock. Last year it was The Shallows, a slickly …

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Central Cinema launches crowd-funding campaign for independent movie theater in Happy Holler

In Movies & TV, News by Matthew EverettJune 12, 2017leave a COMMENT

Last month, Coury Turczyn reported on plans for an independent repertory movie theater in Happy Holler—that is, a locally owned and locally programmed single-screen cinema showing classic movies and new …

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‘Wonder Woman’ embraces fun—and feminism

In Movies & TV by April SnellingsJune 6, 2017leave a COMMENT

It’s one of the coolest origin stories in the history of comics: In the early ’40s, famed psychologist, lie detector co-inventor, and occasional Gillette razor spokesman William Moulton Marston was …

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Wonder Woman: A Hero for Our Time

In Movies & TV by JoAnna BrookerJune 2, 2017leave a COMMENT

Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins (Monster), is likely to be the best-reviewed DC film since The Dark Knight, in 2008. But what will give this movie a place in …

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A fan’s tribute to Roger Moore

In Movies & TV by Thomas StubbsMay 31, 2017leave a COMMENT

Dear Roger Moore, Like most moviegoers, I first crossed paths with you in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die. I had almost given up on Bond, to …

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