I'm behind on writing up these reviews so let's speed things up with a shorts edition of two films: "The Last Station" and "The Hurt Locker" (both 2009).
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The medical field is flawed. Doctors are flawed. I'm not sure any relatively educated person is shocked by these assertions, but Gawande makes his points as if he were the Masked Magician, unveiling the truth behind our illusions about medicine.
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My friend Beth recommended Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" after I all but swore off Woody Allen films for good. She said both directors had distinct, recognizable styles. Another friend, Chris, added that they wear similar glasses. I do like men with inappropriately large glasses, so I decided to give Lee's film a...
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Before sitting down to Fritz Lang's "M," I knew two things. First, I knew I liked "Metropolis" (1927). Second, I'd heard that Quentin Tarantino's whistling score accompanying "Kill Bill Vol. 1"'s killer nurse was a reference to Lang's whistling killer (Peter Lorre) in "M".
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