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Do It Again (and Again)

by Shawn Stone November 1, 2012

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  This cinematic lollapalooza from Run Lola Run’s Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis of Matrix fame is ambitious beyond any film in recent memory. Sprawling over three hours, Cloud Atlas tells six stories, spanning hundreds of ...

Time-Travel Transformation

by Laura Leon May 30, 2012

A few weeks ago, during one of those bouts of sleeplessness where you mull over troubling work and family situations ad nauseum, I thought about Will Smith. Why, I’ll never know, but in my nocturnal ...

Metropolis with The Alloy Orchestra

by The Staff August 3, 2011

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Fritz Lang’s epic film Metropolis--screening Saturday night at MASS MoCA, with the estimable Alloy Orchestra providing the music--is a landmark of cinema, a cornerstone of 20th-century science fiction and just generally awesome—even if it is, ...

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Déjà vu All Over Again

by Laura Leon April 6, 2011

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Generally speaking, science fiction movies make me glaze over. This is particularly true during the parts where someone explains the quasi-biochemical reason why the space-time continuum must be adjusted before the reactor interfaces with the ...