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Sirât – first-look review | Little White Lies
Euphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât,…
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US Military in Our Streets: Posse Comitatus in Historical Perspective
In the 1975 film Posse, Amsterdam, NY native Kirk Douglas (who directed the film) plays an unscrupulous U.S. Marshal running…
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Dossier 137 – first-look review
This robust if hardly revelatory police procedural coasts on an detailed and charismatic lead performance from Léa Drucker. In late…
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The Plague – first-look review
To stand out as a teenager is to make yourself a target. The pack mentality that dominates most group settings…
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The James Bond Novel Set in the Adirondacks
It was British novelist Ian Fleming’s tenth James Bond novel. The 1962 book, The Spy Who Loved Me, was set…
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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo – first-look…
In striking opening credits, boiling copper pours from atop a grey mountain like lava, a sluggish, powerful current that exists…
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The Chronology of Water – first-look review
The transformative power of water lies at the heart of American writer Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, informed by her adolescent dreams…
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Goldenrod Crab Spiders: Masters of Disguise
On a spring morning walk, I stop to smell a painted trillium and am greeted by a goldenrod crab spider…
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La Petite Dernière – first-look review
For all its big themes, there is a vagueness to Hafsia Herzi’s anecdotal character study about a 17-year-old named Fatima…
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New York State Fair 2025 Concert Lineup
The New York State Fair has announced their 2025 performers, including Scotland sensations Red Hot Chilli Pipers, TV personality DJ…
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