Daily Archives: September 30, 2014

“Good Lie” cast and director talk about America’s need to understand refugees

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Those who made the new movie “The Good Lie,” screenwriter Margaret Nagle’s fictionalized account of what many Sudanese “Lost Boys” went through to get to America, figure there’s a timeliness to its history. It’s not just about 1980s East Africa … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Bolivar gets a glossy if superficial biography in “The Liberator”

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Simon Bolivar had traits from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Napoleon, all in one titanic personality. Born to wealth, he came to champion equal rights for all South Americans. A military dilettante, he fought in over 100 … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Reitman’s losing streak continues with “Men, Women & Children”

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It says something about us as a culture that the moment that provokes gasps of shock in “Men, Women & Children” comes when a media-paranoid mother deletes text messages from her teenage daughter’s phone. We’re shocked at this parental betrayal, … Continue reading →

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