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CRONOS
DIRECTOR | GUILLERMO DEL TORO STARRING | FEDERICO LUPPI, RON PERLMAN, CLAUDIO BROOK STUDIO | CRITERION RELEASE | 12.7.10 Instead of pulling a True Blood and creating an entire vampire underworld,...
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HOT TOPIC: HOLIDAY SPENDING
It’s Christmas (Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Yule) time again, Charlie Brown, and before you toss your last nickel into Lucy’s cup to lament the rapacious commercialization of the season, take some advice right...
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REEL TALK
MOVIES RATED BY EYE-CATCHING HATS ANGELS ON THE STREETS | FEZ (Pictured) A testament to how much better Korean propaganda films are than American. Never ham-fisted or overtly nationalistic, the film...
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BLACK SWAN
In my somewhat short career as a movie reviewer, I have yet to walk out of a film with such a feeling as the one I had after seeing Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. At first, I heard the chatter of the...
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE
DIRECTOR | DAVID SLADE STARRING | ROBERT PATTINSON, KRISTEN STEWART, TAYLOR LAUTNER STUDIO | SUMMIT RELEASE | 12.4.10 This may be the easiest diss of all time to write, but it’s mostly aimed at the...
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DIG THIS! THE ANCHORAGE
extreme minimalism We’re post-everything these days. You’ve got your post-modern movements, your post-punk revivals, your Post-it Notes, and now, apparently, we’ve even got post-documentaries. What...
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INCEPTION
DIRECTOR | CHRISTOPHER NOLAN STARRING | LEONARDO DICAPRIO, KEN WATANABE, MARION COTILLARD, ELLEN PAGE, JOSEPH GORDON-LEAVITT STUDIO | WARNER RELEASE | 12.7.10 No bones about it, Inception is a...
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OH CRUEL WORLD
Dear beached whale in a Bruins jersey standing in the middle of the Green Line train to North Station while I was trying to get on at Government Center: Go fuck yourself. Despite repeated calls by the...
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THE DIG FORMULA FOR HITTING THE SLOPES: Where y = style
If you’re one of the brave few who disappears every other weekend into the superior higher altitudes to hurl yourself off mountains and hope that slightly angling your feet a certain way will keep you...
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THE DIG’S GUIDE TO GIFTING, 2010: 25 DAYS OF LOCAL SHOPPING
Think we can introduce this year’s gift guide without using the word “local” once? Let’s try. With 25 days until Chrimbus, here are 25 independent shops that bring a geographically confined angle to...
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BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS
The suicide of Middlesex County Sheriff James DiPaola turned the stomachs of many citizens of Boston last weekend. Especially citizens in the local media. DiPaola, a beloved local figure with...
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