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Spike Jonze’s film Her, currently out in theaters and an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, is a cautionary tale…

Good versus good hardly seems like a movie plot, but in Grace Unplugged Divine good versus worldly goods is pitted…

I got a chance tonight to grab a few friends and go see Gimme Shelter staring Vanessa Hudgens. I was…

From writer/director Spike Jonez’, Her is a rather extraordinary film. It’s really a science fiction/love story about A.I. (artificial intelligence). Set in…

To the extent that art really does imitate life, every American owes it to themselves and to our troops to…

One of the stupidest things I ever said was to two street urchins in Dublin, Ireland. My friend Margie and…

Nebraska–the latest offering from director Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants)–is more of Payne’s unblinking look at the difficulty of human…

During a wintery January night in my apartment, while attending college years ago, I was channel surfing, and found a…

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is, of course, Part Two in a three-part cinematic extravaganza of Tolkien’s beloved book: The…