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Admittedly, “The Astronaut Farmer” has a certain forced charm. It features an uncommonly amusing cell phone ring and earns a few other good-natured laughs. Its earnest nature is at times compelling: it is refreshing to see a family film that lacks an ironical mocking...

Author: By Caroline C. Corbitt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Astronaut Farmer | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

"There is a certain kind of laughing that brings knowledge and understanding," Levy said. Not all reviews have been damning. Writing in the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, critic Daniel Haas praised Levy for "dar[ing] the outrageous.... The film is not only about Hitler but about the way in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Springtime for Hitler? | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

So, in the tradition of Batman Begins and the Star Wars pre-trilogy, they went back to square one and created a baby Bond. Casino Royale was Ian Fleming's first 007 novel, and Bond here is an agent on his first big case, a rough diamond who has not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Um, Is That You, Bond? | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

Jarcho says that the band was a bunch of kids who were “too self-conscious to be popular, too ironical to be punk, too awesome not to be friends.,” and feels that the band was often an outlet.

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Harvard: School of Rock? | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

We ought not, though, to allow ourselves to be trapped in perpetual girlhood because of a poverty of language. After all, some of the aptest sociological terms in our language—“WASP,” say, or “Yuppie”?...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Girl Talk | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

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