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NFL By The Numbers

NFL By The Numbers I debuted this section of the column last week and kind of liked it. I felt like I was able to give you some interesting information using numerals. I will attempt to do the same this week. 0: Zero (losses)...

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A Star Is Born (***)

A Star is Born, for those not keeping score, is the fourth film with that title to make it to the big screen in the last eighty one years. General consensus has always been that the 1954 version, which starred Judy Garland and...

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Fahrenheit 11/9 (***)

Filmmaker Michael Moore often gets accused of playing loose with the facts in his films. It’s the single most common complaint I hear when I bring up the name of the most successful documentarian—at least from a financial...

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Undercover

The morning has passed. It’s after the afternoon. Evening is drawing to a close. Twilight teeters on the horizon…or perhaps it totters; maybe it teeter-totters with dusk? Actually twilight and dusk are basically the same thing....

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Urban Is Back

It seems like just yesterday when Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer was suspended. Ahh, that’s right. It was just the other day. Urban ‘I just misspoke, I did not lie’ Meyer has served his three game suspension and will return...

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A Simple Favor (***) R

After a decade spent mostly in the realm of comedy (Bridesmaids, The Heat, Spy), director Paul Feig has opted to bring his sensibilities to the thriller genre with the big screen adaptation of Darcey Bell’s novel “A Simple...

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NFL Week One In Review

Finally. NFL football is here. The real games. Do we really need four exhibition games? The college game does not need any. But that is another topic. Week one of the NFL has come and gone and here are a few items of interest...

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The Predator (**) R

Although I was only sixteen years old at the time, I can still remember my initial impression of John McTiernan’s 1987 film Predator as being good but not great. Back then I felt that its pacing was way too glacial for its first...

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Urban Decay?

Ohio State University released its findings last week concerning head football coach Urban Meyer and his program in Columbus, Ohio. The findings were alarming to say the least. The result of a three game suspension, if you can...

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