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In the area of Lincoln and Addison today, you may have notice something out of the ordinary. You might have seen Ben Stiller or Robert De niro. The huge tip that today wasn’t an ordinary day might have been the film lights and cameras.

Test, is this public?

Perhaps you’ve already heard someone say “How to get back my ex?” Often, they would break into sobs and be completely lost in overwhelming grief. This is normal. In fact, most people who have lost their husband, wife, boyfriend, or girlfriend are scarred for life and have never really fully recovered. Well, break up can be that devastating.

Western films can be compared to a distinctive writing style. Writers like Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway developed a style they would become famous for. It’s the same with Western movies. All of them feature cowboys, damsels in distress, and lots of gunfights.

Directed by David Fincher
3 stars
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I love David Fincher’s work. I especially love it when he’s paired with Brad Pitt. He brings the grit of his music video background to an extended format, cleans it up a little, but not enough that you don’t still know there’s a layer of filth underneath. I like that. I’m a grit-girl.

Directed by Danny Boyle
4 stars
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I was introduced to this film in two ways:

1. I saw a commercial for it in which there was a lot of Bollywood dancing & high-energy music.

2. My boss told me about walking out of it about 15 minutes in because the images were disturbing & they were duped into thinking it was the feel-good movie of the year.

Directed by Gus Van Sant
3.5 stars
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Why did I not know this story already? Oh … that’s right. Because there isn’t a “LGBT History Month” in the United States. Seriously, though, why sometimes do we need Hollywood to feed us our history lessons?

For the first film of today to be shown at the theater . Would be MILK , starring Shaun Penn, portraying the rise of Harvey Milk as the first openly gay elected official to public office.

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
4 stars
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From the beginning, the screech of the score & the unnerving tang of the metal against rock set the tone. Not unlike Saving Private Ryan, the first 15 or so minutes of this movie are painful to watch. There’s no dialogue, no flashy MTV-style editing. Just Daniel Day-Lewis in a shaft. A filthy, life-threatening shaft.

Directed by Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
3.5 stars
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This film is exactly why I don’t like knowing too much about a film prior to seeing it. Going into the theatre, I expected to view a film in which I wouldn’t be able to tell which black & white drawing was the main character & also in which I would see & hear a lot of political rhetoric about Iran.