Stories by Derek Hill
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Tilting Windmills: Nebraska
Movie Pick
Director Alexander Payne conjures up a haunting yet wry look at the American heartland, a place desolate yet warmly and strangely inviting.
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One of Us
Movie Pick: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers will play one time only at Ciné, Saturday, Feb. 1 at 10 p.m., as part of their Science on Screen film series.
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Savages
Movie Pick: The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street brokers are just as loathsome as the mobsters from Goodfellas.
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What Are You Doing?
Movie Pick
What happens to the performer good enough to draw a crowd, but not great enough to become Bob Dylan?
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Marvelous Middle-Earth
Movie Pick: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Desolation of Smaug is pure spectacle and a vast improvement over the last movie.
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Turnaround
Movie Pick: Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club contains two of this year's best performances courtesy of Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.
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Some Like It Hot
Movie Pick: Baby Doll
Fifty-seven years after it was first theatrically released, Elia Kazan's Baby Doll still sizzles.
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My Muse, My Inspiration
Movie Pick: Blue Is The Warmest Color
Blue Is The Warmest Color is contemporary cinema at its best and one of the finest romantic dramas in many a season.
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Classic for a Reason
Movie Pick: Alien
Thirty-four years after its initial release, Alien still packs a punch.
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Ride On
Movie Pick: Wadjda
Wadjda is the first movie made by a female director to come out of Saudi Arabia, a country with no cinemas, and many Western viewers will find it an eye-opening experience.
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Girl On Fire
Carrie
The bad ones get their comeuppance, and Carrie's bloody response is thoroughly justified.
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Pick a Song or Two
Movie Pick: Muscle Shoals
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The Grifters
Movie Pick: Inequality For All
Something is decidedly off in America, and only a willfully ignorant person would continue the great lie that it's all going to work itself out on its own.
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Poisoned Perception
Enough Said
By the time the brisk, amiable comedy-drama has ended, we're left with feelings of uncertainty mingled with compassion.
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Detours
Prince Avalanche
Prince Avalanche is no a great movie, but its the kind of movie you can crush on.
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Battle of the Larynx
In A World...
That actress/filmmaker Lake Bell is able to fly her feminist flag and still keep the movie hilarious without being heavy-handed is a real pleasure to behold.
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Lacerations
Movie Pick: Blackfish
Blackfish mounts a devastating (yet always compelling) attack against keeping orca whales in captivity for our amusement.
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Senseless Sensibility
Austenland
Consider this one only for hardcore Jane Austen fans yearning for any kind of screen homage.
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Cruel Intentions
Blue Jasmine
Blue Jasmine is Woody Allen's best movies in years, featuring one of the finest female characters he's ever written.
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