I’ve always loved Merchant/Ivory films. Ever since I was introduced to A Room with a View, and later discovered the sumptuous Howard’s End and The Remains of the Day, I’ve been hooked on their exquisite style and literary grace. I’ve always found it odd and not a little bit delightful that the best movies about […]

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I have two copies of each of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films on my shelf. One is the original theatrical release and the other is the extended Director’s cut. The theatrical versions are already long, each clocking in around three hours. The director’s cut, which inserts deleted scenes, runs nearly four. With […]

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You didn’t understand all of it? It went by too fast to take it all in? There was too much information to mentally digest? Yeah, well, that was kind of the point. Life’s a lot like that too. This unabashedly critical look at America’s gluttony for Mid-East oil and the lengths we will go to […]

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