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'Orange Is the New Black,' Season Two
Truth and consequences
Jenji Kohan takes the cheesiest of B-movie settings, a women's prison, as her starting point for an engrossing and complex examination of morality and choice in Orange Is the New Black.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman in 'God's Pocket'
Nominally a Philadelphia film
As Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last film, God’s Pocket may end up being remembered as better than it actually is.
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James Gray’s ‘The Immigrant’
Ellis Island blues
What went on under Lady Liberty’s lamp? James Gray’s The Immigrant tells the Ellis Island story as the dark side of the American Dream.
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'Dear Mr. Watterson'
The 'Bigfoot' of comic artists
Calvin and Hobbes may be the world’s last great household names in cartoon strip characters: the last universally known and universally loved ink, paper, and watercolor world we’ll ever fall into.
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Relâche and 'The Lodger' at the Penn Museum
Old movie, new music
Live music by Relâche enhances enjoyment of Hitchcock's first hit, the silent film The Lodger.
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'The Bletchley Circle'
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No – it’s crime-fighting women!
Ultimately, the series is not about the crimes being solved but rather the true identities of these extraordinary women. Each of them is forced to live a lie, pretending to be the helpless, hapless stereotypes that the male-dominated society of the time forced them to play.
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The female antihero on television
Sisters are doing it for themselves
Right now, there’s a crop of TV shows that both pass the Bechdel test and feature female characters who would feel right at home with Jax Teller and Walter White.
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The Fall 2014 TV season
Geek Wonderland
As a lifelong geek, I consider this to be the Golden Age of television. Of all the choices on TV (and let’s face it, there are a lot of choices), geek programs as a rule have a higher level of writing and production values than your average cop show or prime-time soap opera.
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'Under the Skin' and 'Only Lovers Left Alive'
New takes on horror
Genre films are not just for hacks — well-regarded indie directors Jonathan Glazer and Jim Jarmusch try their hands at horror.
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This is my design: The horror of 'Hannibal'
The viewer of Hannibal enters a world where the most horrifying aspects of being a human being are explored. Our bodies are fragile, our minds vulnerable. We are easy prey for a nearly omnipotent devil such as Hannibal Lecter.
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