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An Evening with Andre Aciman at Warwick’s Books, La Jolla, CA

Tonight was pretty amazing for me. I went to Warwick’s in La Jolla, CA (10 miles north of San Diego) to see Andre Aciman (Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, and Harvard Square, and the editor of The Proust Project) in conversation with Beth Accomando (Reporter for KPBS

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The 2018 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts

It’s officially a tradition: for the past three years I managed to watch all the Oscar-nominated Documentary Shorts. Mostly because, hey, short. (Come on, you can dominate a whole category in three hours!) But they’re never boring. Depressing as hell sometimes, but never boring. It’s not a comfortable three hours, but it’s always interesting. Click

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Review – Darkest Hour

By guest columnist narrator26 As someone who knew next to nothing about Winston Churchill, I went into Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour in hope of a good history lesson, in addition to a well crafted film. Thankfully, I got my fair share of both.

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Review – Transformers Lost Light #15

Remember how I said a couple weeks ago that I’d gotten spoiled and greedy because we had two Lost Light issues in a month and now I didn’t want to wait 30 days for the next issue? Well it’s been two weeks and we just got a new issue. So now I’m really spoiled and

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Review: Beneath The Sugar Sky (Wayward Children)

The rules of the school are simple. Heal. Hope. And if you can, find your way back where you belong. No solicitation. No visitors. No quests. It’s lucky that the students at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children aren’t used to following rules, because in Seanan McGuire’s latest story in the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children

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HIT-GIRL RUSHED BACK TO PRINT

PORTLAND, OR, 02/23/2018 — The highly anticipated new story arc of Mark Millar and Ricardo Lopez Ortiz’s HIT-GIRL #1 is being rushed back to print in order to keep up with overwhelming customer demand.

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Binary System Podcast #115 – The Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The planets finally aligned (…took them long enough. Get it together, planets…) and Binary System Podcast was able to get Elizabeth, Kathryn, Nathan, and Jada together at the same time to talk about this year’s Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts. Spoiler warnings for

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Review – Molly’s Game

By guest writer TheNoShitMovieCritic. Jessica Chastain’s previous role in 2016’s Miss Sloane no doubt assisted her ability to nail this performance. In short, if a fast-talking, dialogue-heavy, crime biography drama is what you seek, this one comes media recommended and entertaining on that level.

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