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Pixar’s tenth film decimated its opening weekend box office at $68.2 Million, placing a gap of $43 million between it and the second-ranking box office hit. While box office numbers may be skewed by the regular admission for the standard show and the anti-single-mom-with-low-paying-job-recessionista price (I paid $11 for an adult ticket at a fair-to-do Regal Cinemas) for the 3-D show, three weeks later–after school let the kids out–Pixar’s Up is still mezmerizing adults and children alike. Pixar’s animations have been long-deserving of their four Academy Awards for Best Animated Featured Film of the Year and its countless other awards and nominations.This year, Pixar delivers yet another masterpiece.
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Although I am familiar with the story, I wouldn’t say I was particularly a fangirl of the comic books. I read them quite some time ago, probably when I wasn’t old enough to understand literature rife with the kind of intellectual banter and macrocosms like The Watchmen. Subtle details and choice lines of the movie drew me back the visual ingenuity and wonder present in the comic books and I want nothing but to read the series again. [ I’m trying to find the best deal to acquire the comic book. Amazon.com has it for $10.99, but the University Village Bookstore says “Spend $40 and get a figurine for free!” Jobert can ship it to me, or I can just ask to borrow the Office copy. ]

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The Coen brothers uphold their reputation for entertainment and atrocity in their latest movie Burn After Reading. This movie—like all of the other Coen brothers movies—flows smoothly from comical to catastrophic, trite to tasteful, scatterbrained to serious, taciturn to tactile all in the same ninety-six minutes of run time.

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OfficeSpace meets Star Wars in this action-packed, riveting film about fulfilling your destiny. Read the rest of this entry »