Category: Film

31 Oct

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Foreign zombie flicks dish up a twisted buffet of awesome

by · October 31, 2012 · 0 Comments

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Run for your life folks, zombies are everywhere. It’s Halloween night, and if you haven’t made your costume yet, take a cue from some chilling foreign zombie flicks and you’ll be the undead life of the party. The American zombie scene has been saturated with zombie flicks that just look, and bite, the same. Sure, classics [...]

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25 Oct

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Family ties defy the Israeli-Palestinian divide in ‘The Other Son’

by · October 25, 2012 · 0 Comments

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Babies accidentally switched at birth. From Mark Twain to the ABC Family Monday night lineup, it’s a familiar plot device – and a usually a pretty cheesy one. But French director Lorraine Levy successfully adopts this clichéd premise in her third feature film, The Other Son, which opens Friday at the Egyptian Theatre. Levy delivers a [...]

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02 Oct

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Half the Sky: half humanitarian heroics, half celebrity ego trip

by · October 2, 2012 · 9 Comments

Actress Olivia Wilde hangs at the Umoja Women's Village in Kenya as part of Half the Sky. (Photo via Jessica Chermayeff/PBS)

Newsflash: being a woman is surreal. Last night I was supposed to be at the gym. So I could look slimmer and prettier or something. But I had a headache. So I stayed on the couch, stumbled across human dolls on Facebook (seriously?!), and tuned in to the much-trumpeted nationwide premier of Half the Sky. [...]

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13 Sep

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A drunken news roundup, cinema ninjas fight cellphones and music you can swing to…literally

by · September 13, 2012 · 0 Comments

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This week in drunk news: Man kills 70,000 chickens in Maryland and a North Korean man floats south Drunk men all over the world are making headlines this week in bizarre events that rival the “Hangover” films. For starters, 21-year-old Joshua D. Shelton accidentally killed 70,000 chickens after flicking a switch and shutting down power [...]

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27 Jun

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Calling all young globalists: multimedia journalism summer camp

by · June 27, 2012 · 0 Comments

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Do you know a globally-minded youth between the ages of 15 to 19? There’s a brand new journalism camp this summer at the University of Washington. The Seattle Digital Literacy Initiative, a youth journalism program of the Common Language Project and UW Department of Communication, is excited to announce a 5-day Multimedia Journalism Camp from [...]

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