Parenthetical

A friend and I just saw Young Adult, a movie in which Charlize Theron plays Mavis, the alcoholic ghostwriter of a popular YA series called Waverly Prep (Gossip Girls, more or less, with less brand name-dropping). Her life is miserable and empty, so she decides to return to her hometown to get her high school [...]

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Conor has had the same nightmare every night since his mother began her treatments. But one night he wakes up to a different dream: a monster has come calling. The monster wants to tell him three stories, and in exchange Conor must tell the true story of his nightmare. Conor scoffs, but as his mother [...]

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A few weeks ago I saw It’s a Wonderful Life for the first time. I know the face you’re making right now, because every single person to whom I mentioned that I was doing this made a, “What? What kind of American are you?” face, followed by an “Awww, I love that movie; it’s the [...]

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E and I agreed: Garden State? Waaay overrated. Zach Braff does “earnest” very well, but he was so earnest (“Dad, how about we just try being who we are?”) that I think I sprained a muscle rolling my eyes. Also, I am so over the “lonely guy with boring life is saved by adorably quirky [...]

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