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  • A new Pixar movie means? Rejoicing! Although I haven’t seen WALL-E yet. Because I am a bad fan. Soon. Every Pixar movie, though, I see the trailer and I’m like, how are they gonna pull this off? An animated family movie with a 70-something crotchety protagonist? Then again, their short Geri’s Game was about an aging gentleman chess player, and that was fantastic. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s to trust Pixar.

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August 2007 Reading/Watching Recap

October 9th, 2007 |

Time off school in August meant non-required reading yay! For the record, a lawn chair by a lake in Minnesota is a good place to read in August. Especially after 100 degree heat in St. Louis and Texas. After the jump, reactions to The Shining, The African Queen, Hannah and Her Sisters, [...]

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Tagged:Becoming Jane, Cashback, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Dancer in the Dark, David Lynch, Diane Setterfield, dystopian fiction, Eudora Welty, First Among Sequels, gothic fiction, Hannah and Her Sisters, Idiocracy, Inherit the Wind, INLAND EMPIRE, Jane Austen, Jasper Fforde, Jean-Luc Godard, Johnny Guitar, Ladies They Talk About, Lars von Trier, Le petit soldat, Losing Battles, Nicholas Ray, Old Boy, Once, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ride the High Country, Southern Lit, Stanley Kubrick, Stardust, The African Queen, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Petrified Forest, The Shining, The Thirteenth Tale, Thursday Next, Too Many Husbands, We, Woody Allen, Yvegeny Zamyatin, Zodiac

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