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‘Liberal Arts’ an indie romance for bookworms

Uneven and overly sunny it may be, but as literary love fuses with romantic love at an idyllic college, writer-director-actor Josh Radnor achieves nice-little-movie status and tickles the bookworm heart in his dramedy “Liberal Arts.” Read More

Slaughter house rules in ‘The Cabin in the Woods’

Traditionally, horror movies have been measured by how effectively they thrill and chill audiences.But after film scholars including Robin Wood and Linda Williams began examining those visceral reactions on an intellectual level, a crop of new horror movies — films that deconstructed horror movies, from  “Scream” to last year’s “Tucker and Dale vs. Evil”— emerged. Now, Joss Whedon’s genius “The Cabin in the Woods” takes this deconstruction to a new, cosmic level. Read More

Vampire flick gets remake

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For fans of the 2008 Swedish import “Let the Right One In” littering the Internet with cries of blasphemous imitation, Chloe Moretz, the 13-year-old star of “Let Me In,” has a simple request: Give Matt Reeves’ remake a chance. Read More
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