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Free to Wait til DVD

The Latest in the Fifty Shades franchise: Still don’t watch it with your family
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I planned to see “Fifty Shades Freed,” the new “Fifty Shades” movie, with my ex-girlfriend, because I apparently thrive on uncomfortable situations. This close to Valentine’s Day though, the idea seemed a little too masochistic, even for me. Christian Grey might have relished the idea, but he’s way better at compartmentalizing than I am. Instead of […]

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Different Strokes

Celebrate Valentine’s Day your way
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Over the years, I’ve worked at several different video stores and movie theaters. I’ve seen couples deeply in love before a movie have a possibly relationship-ending argument by the time it was over. That’s why when you plan what movie to watch with your s/o (especially on Valentine’s Day), it’s always smart to choose a […]

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String Theory

Searching for the “Phantom Thread”
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Pardon me a very obvious analogy: There’s a lot going on in “Phantom Thread.” So much, that if you pull one delicately frayed string, it unravels 30 more passageways, showing how deftly woven the entire underlying structure is. And just like the secret messages its main character sews into the lining of his garments, there […]

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Returning to the River

The Upper Columbia United Tribes are once again united by water
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“The Grand Coulee Dam murdered my tribe’s history. Murdered the history of all the Upper Columbia and Spokane tribes. Murdered my tribe’s relationship with its deity and murdered our relationship with our futures. For us, the Grand Coulee Dam is an epic gravestone and we Salish people have been mourning the death of our wild […]

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Hated in the Nation

The many sides of Tonya Harding
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In the United States. we love our heroes almost as much as we love to watch them fall from grace. As a country, we exist in this feedback loop—a perpetual state of “What have you done for me lately,” expecting our celebrities to entertain us while also giving us plenty of fuel with which to […]

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The Unsinkable Molly Bloom

Aaron Sorkin returns to the big screen
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Here we are, smack dab in the middle of winter—a time when many people are snapping on their bindings and winter gear to ski, snowboard or snowshoe. Meanwhile, others look for warmer and less-physical ways to break our legs. High stakes poker with the Russian mob, perhaps? Based on the trippingly-titled memoir, “Molly’s Game: From […]

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So Many Movies, So Little Time

A look at the films of 2018
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Surprisingly, last year turned out to be the best year for films in recent memory. From lovingly crafted indies such as “Lady Bird” to the challenging and eye-popping spectacle of “War for the Planet of the Apes” — 2017 gave us some all-timers. Obviously, it’s too soon to tell whether 2018 will be just as […]

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Top 10 Films of the Year

An amazing year, at least in film.
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This is the hardest it has ever been for me to come up with a Top 10 Films list. The year 2017 will be remembered as the finest year for cinema of the new century (alongside 2007, which brought us “There Will Be Blood,” “No Country for Old Men” and “Zodiac,” among others). This year […]

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The Best of Pop Culture

Top Ten shows of 2017
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This week in a very special May the Source Be With You, we’re sharing some of our favorite things over the past year. It’s December. We make lists in December. It’s just how it goes. In Pod We Trust: There are so many podcasts now that’s it’s genuinely impossible to listen to them all. I […]

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Return of the Space Wizards

"The Last Jedi" defies expectations
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Audiences are going to hate “The Last Jedi” because of “The Force Awakens.” Even though “TFA” gave us interesting new characters including Rey, Finn, Kylo and Poe, it was still designed specifically (and expertly) around capturing an audience’s nostalgia. The story for “TFA” was so similar to “A New Hope” that it almost plays as […]

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