Stories By Julia Rhodes
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Movie Review: The Princess and the Frog
January 7, 2024Cinderella and Snow White are famously hardworking Disney princesses, but they were enslaved as a punishment...
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
January 5, 2024Fantastic Mr. Fox is a pleasant return to classic stop-motion animation, a technique little used anymore....
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Movie Review: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
January 5, 2024Robin Wright plays Pippa, a beautiful, pastel-clad homemaker nearing her 50s. As the movie opens, her...
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Movie Review: New Moon
January 4, 2024The movie positively drags at two hours eleven minutes; when the kids at the front of...
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Movie Review: Pirate Radio
January 3, 2024Aside from the lack of a true protagonist, a number of small story arcs fall a...
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Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
January 2, 2024Imagine a world in which the military trains soldiers not to kill enemies of the state,...
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Movie Review: Paranormal Activity
December 31, 2023The film falls short by arranging a regrettably thin layer of spooky occurrences beneath a thicker...
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Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are
December 30, 2023Although studios balked at the film’s maturity, believing it might be too scary for children, it...
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Movie Review: Zombieland
December 30, 2023Zombieland elicits comparison to both the Brit “romzomcom” (romantic zombie comedy) and Dawn of the Dead...
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Movie Review: The Informant!
December 28, 2023Perhaps the most ingenious part of Whitacre’s affect (and the film) is his stream-of-consciousness inner monologue....