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The Matrix

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Set in the not too distant future in an insipid, characterless city, there is a young man named Neo (Keanu Reeves). A software techie by day and a computer hacker by night, he sits alone at home by his monitor, waiting for a sign, a signal from what or whom he doesn’t know until one […]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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Anybody who’s too young to remember The Goodbye Girl may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss’s performance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Here, he plays a man possessed; contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the “chosen”) is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil’s […]

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

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Steven Spielberg’s 1982 hit E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial about a stranded alien and his loving relationship with a fatherless boy named Elliot (Henry Thomas) struck a chord with audiences everywhere, and it furthered Spielberg’s reputation as a director of equally strong commercial sensibilities and classical leanings. Thomas gives a strong, emotional performance as E.T.’s young friend, […]

Murdoch Mysteries: The Series

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Inspired by a series of television movies based on the mystery novels of Maureen Jennings, the enjoyable Murdoch Mysteries: Series One follows the investigations of Toronto police detective William Murdoch at the close of the 19th century. A man of scientific progress as well as devout Catholicism, Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) approaches mysteries with such new, […]