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Great Flicks

Up

Up is the latest Pixar movie to hit the big screen. And it's wonderful. One of my biggest complaints with children's films these days is that they pull too many punches. Too many children's films want to save children from having to see the sadder parts of life. Somewhere along the way though, the people at Pixar realized this wasn't the way to make a great kid's film. Kids should be exposed to as much of life as they can be, and by exposing it to them in a beautiful animated format with believable [...]

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Ed Asner

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, directed by Michael Gondry and written by Charlie Kaufman, is one of the best movies of the last decade. It's difficult to think of a movie I've seen in the last ten years that doesn't have more charm to it. The movie never misses a moment. It never wastes a scene or even a single line of dialog. The film follows Joel Barish (played by Jim Carrey) and hipster, free-wheelin' Clementine Kruczynski (played by Kate Winslet). This is Jim Carrey's best role to [...]

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Charlie Kaufman
Jim Carrey
Kate Winslet
Michael Gondry