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Review – Lion

By guest columnist Lauren (moviemagic16.) Lion is the true story about a boy named Saroo who, when he’s five, falls asleep on a train and ends up lost. Thankfully he ends up getting adopted by an Australian family, but when he grows up he seeks to find out where he came from, and with the help of Google

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Review – La La Land

By guest columnist keziahildetamar. From the very first moment I found out Damien Chazelle directed this movie, I knew it would  be at least be as awesome as Whiplash.

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Review – Hidden Figures

By guest columnist dyron_rises Hidden Figures, adapted from the non-fiction book by Margot Lee Shettery, follows three female African-American mathematicians who made several notable contributions to NASA, such as launching the first American astronaut (the late John Glenn) into orbit, while working as part of the Langley Research Center’s West Area Computing Unit division, and

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Binary System Podcast #66 – Comics, Movies, and Cosplay

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! No new Welcome To Night Vale episode to recap this week. But never fear, the BSP team is more than willing to blather on about the comics we’re reading, the movies we’re watching, and then have a long discussion about what

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Review – Moonlight

By guest columnist paoloarag0na. I’d been catching up on all the big films that were released in the tail end of 2016 and had put off seeing Moonlight until a late screening this past Saturday evening. (Minor spoilers follow.)

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Academy Awards 2016: Five more films

I admit it: at the Awards viewing parties I usually use the Feature Length Documentaries section as a chance to get up and stretch my legs, take a bathroom break, and snag an appetizer, because most of the time I haven’t seen any of the nominations. Not this year. This year I watched all of them.

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Academy Awards 2016: Appetizers for Your Party!

The Academy Awards are fast approaching. We are not attending, so we can eat what we want because we do not have to fit in that dress or tux! I personally love appetizers. I don’t like to eat a lot at once and appetizers are the perfect way to experience many different dishes in small

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Academy Awards 2016: Last Day of Freedom

Since I’ve been trying to watch a lot of the Oscar-nominated documentaries this year (just because it’s the one category I usually skip completely) I looked at Last Day of Freedom, the story that Bill Babbitt tells about the brother he delivered to the police. At just under 34 minutes, it’s not an easy film to watch. But I

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Lost In Sci-Fi Special: Ex Machina

You can listen to this episode on our Lost In Sci-Fi channel at Anchor.fm! This week we devote our whole episode to the Oscar nominated film, Ex Machina, the movie where a young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid A.I. But

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