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    • 22 Ratings
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    Our Incredible Shrinking President

    MAY 16, 2013 6:52PM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: barack obama, president of the united states, potus, tea party, irs, associated press, republicans, conspiracy theory, leadership, nsa, government surveillance, illegal aliens, deportation, veterans administration, belief/religion, movies, music, news, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 930 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Remembering Roger Ebert

    APRIL 4, 2013 10:58PM

    By Nick Leshi


    Topics: entertainment, television, tv, film, movies, critic, roger ebert, open call, breaking news

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 4535 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Breakfast Epiphanies: Encounters With Notorious Homophobes

    MARCH 8, 2013 1:09PM

    By Kevin Mims


    Topics: movies, politics, writing, homophobia, gay marriage, maggie gallagher, orson scott card

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 243 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Gee, Maybe Audiences Will See An Action Movie That

    MARCH 8, 2013 10:32AM

    By Robert J. Elisberg


    Topics: movies, hollywood, women, action

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 2319 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Movies That Were Never Made

    MARCH 7, 2013 5:34PM

    By Nick Leshi


    Topics: breaking news, open call, movies, film, entertainment

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 1542 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Movie Musicals That Should Be Rebooted

    JANUARY 31, 2013 11:02PM

    By Nick Leshi


    Topics: reimagining, reboots, remakes, film, movies, musicals, open call, breaking news

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 2587 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Ruby Slippers: when we realize our worth

    OCTOBER 19, 2012 12:49PM

    By Christine Macdonald


    Topics: movies, condifence, self worth, wizard of oz, true story

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 1544 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Too Many Trilogies?

    JULY 23, 2012 11:44PM

    By Nick Leshi


    Topics: breaking news, open call, movies, film, trilogies, amazing spider-man

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 4029 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Young Earth Creationism and the Texas Textbook Wars

    JUNE 21, 2012 4:03PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: movies, conservatives increasingly reject science and rational thought”, “as america grows more polarized, amanda marcott, neal conan, “talk of the nation”, executive producer vijay dewan, director scott thurman, state board of education, texas, texas textbook wars, don mcleroy, “the revisionaries”, intelligent design, young earth creationism, textbooks, film, education, religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1795 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Open Salon review: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

    JUNE 21, 2012 2:14PM

    By Scott Mendelson


    Topics: beasts of the southern wild, benh zeitlin, cannes, dwight henry, oscar 2013, quvenzhane wallis, reviews, sundance, movies, entertainment

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 2767 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Why Prometheus shouldn't get a pass for its 'big ideas'...

    JUNE 14, 2012 7:54PM

    By Scott Mendelson


    Topics: 20th century fox, 3d, essays, ideology, imax, jonah hex, philosophy, prometheus, ridley scott, sucker punch, the avengers, the siege, theocracy, politics, movies, entertainment

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 1436 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    The Dark Knight didn't *really* inspire grim blockbusters.

    MAY 21, 2012 2:40PM

    By Scott Mendelson


    Topics: amazing spider-man, avatar, batman begins, chris nolan, comic book, essay, harry potter, iron man, joss whedon, star trek, the avengers, the dark knight, the dark knight rises, twilight saga, movies, entertainment, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 2174 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    The Success of the Avengers

    MAY 20, 2012 10:50PM

    By Nick Leshi


    Topics: breaking news, open call, the avengers, movies, film, box office

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 4503 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Why's Rihanna in Battleship instead of a minority *actress*?

    MAY 15, 2012 1:12PM

    By Scott Mendelson


    Topics: battleship, peter berg, rihanna, summer 2012, taylor kitsch, universal, race, gender, politics, movies, entertainment

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 2355 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Making "The Avengers" -- Men Only!

    MAY 15, 2012 12:18PM

    By Patrick McEvoy-Halston


    Topics: film, movies, the avengers, avengers, andrew o'hehir

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 5101 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Carroll Shelby 1923 - 2012

    MAY 14, 2012 2:02PM

    By David Glenn Cox


    Topics: technology, movies, fashion, design

    • Editor's Pick
    • 32 Ratings
    • 3586 Views
    • 41 Comments
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    In Defense of Literary Junk Food

    MAY 9, 2012 11:45AM

    By Jaime Franchi


    Topics: 50 shades of grey, fifty shades of grey, open+call, movies, gossip, feminism, books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 3082 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    The Best Time to Go to a Movie Theater

    MAY 7, 2012 10:31PM

    By Nick Leshi


    Topics: theaters, film, movies, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 1530 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Avengers, gender and the Morgan Rule

    MAY 7, 2012 7:36PM

    By Ryan Elias


    Topics: richard morgan, gender, superheroes, movies, avengers

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 1775 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    The Golden Age of Superhero Movies

    MAY 5, 2012 10:55PM

    By Nick Leshi


    Topics: film, movies, comics, marvel, avengers, breaking news, open call

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