The latest chapter in the long “Planet of the Apes” saga takes up the action just a few years into the future promised in the ending of the previous film, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” Some news reports bring the situation up to date, describing the rapid spread of the “simian virus,” actually […]
Keri Russell
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“Austenland”
Be it in novels, on television, or in the movies, love stories in popular culture have always had the (perhaps unintended) effect of creating unrealistic expectations of what romance should be. It’s this tendency that makes the genre so ripe for a good satirical takedown every now and again. Deflating these idealized notions of love […]
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“Dark Skies”
Like the movies themselves, the haunted house, a favorite real estate of generations of horror, has come a long way from the gloomy castle or the dark Victorian pile; directors now relocate that spooky domicile to the more recognizable suburbs that proliferate and spread their interchangeable blandness across our great nation. The menace that once […]
