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Interesting Drug provides a pretty fun high for a while but the comedown is something of a drag.
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Good science fiction is not about the future so much as the present, and Afterparty by Daryl Gregory is good science fiction. It amplifies the societal insecurities of today and projects them into tomorrow without losing track of the human element that drives dramatic storytelling. With elements of a good mystery, Afterparty is full of twists and turns and red herrings on the way to an unexpected and satisfying resolution.
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I’m so sad Philip Seymour Hoffman is gone. I’ll miss his ability to delight and surprise me in every project he worked on. I’m sad but I’m angry too. I’m so sick of this happening. It’s such a waste.
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Dallas Buyers Club is a well-acted, well-made film, the exact type that one can expect during the push toward Oscar season. It just doesn’t live up to the transcendence it so desperately proclaims.
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'The Wolf of Wall Street' was never going to be as universally appreciated as much of its creators’ previous work, but that’s kind of the point. It is meant to be ridiculous, both through its characters’ actors and through the fact that they are allowed carry them out.
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