Milk

The fight for civil rights in the United States has been a brutal, painstaking process. Reversing the status quo, and convincing people that their prejudices and preconceptions are unfounded, is difficult business. Yet throughout history there have been those fearless people who understood that their own rights were deserved. Equality. It is a simple, defined [...]

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Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda is Dreamworks Animation’s latest computer-generated cartoon, centering around a kung fu panda named Po who becomes the “chosen one” in his small village in China. He is a fat, lazy, clumsy panda, but nonetheless, Master Oogway, an aging turtle and the leader of the kung fu troupe the “Furious Five”, sees in [...]

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Role Models

Role models are those people that you seek to emulate. David Wain (from MTV’s The State and the comedy group Stella) makes his directorial debut with a movie that was most likely first in the hands of Judd Apatow. Colorful and perfect, Role Models is textbook Hollywood comedy fare, even with Paul Rudd and Seann [...]

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The Spirit

A late contribution to the Year of the Comic Book Movie, Frank Miller’s directorial debut The Spirit is a complicated affair: based on Will Eisner’s graphic novels of the same name, it mimics the gray-scale noir of “Sin City”, as well as its raspy narration. Less somber than “Sin City” though, it is a cartoon [...]

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