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  A Personal Evolution

  

  By SamFragoso, Clovis, IL

  The question: Comment on the changes that have occurred in your life during the last four years? I was recently fortunate enough to conduct an interview with bonafide movie star Colin Farrell. Most of our discourse pertained to film, his upcoming projects, and other cinematic ambitions. However, ...
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  Cloud Atlas

  

  By SamFragoso, Clovis, IL

  In the endlessly fascinating and spellbindingly imaginative world of Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski’s Cloud Atlas we are tied together in a universe where each of our actions has a subsequent reaction. “From womb to tomb” the film says, “we are bound to others, past, and present and ...
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  Here Comes the Boom

  

  By SamFragoso, Clovis, IL

  In “Here Comes the Boom,” Scott Voss (Kevin James) is a high school science teacher who has lost the motivation to teach. A decade has passed since he was awarded educator of the year. But that might as well have been a lifetime ago. His motivation is reignited, however, when the school annou...
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  Alex Cross

  

  By SamFragoso, Clovis, IL

  Battleship dumbfounded audiences with its stupidity, Project X with its hateful misogyny, and The Lucky One with its pervasive sentimentality. Based on a best-selling series of novels by James Patterson, Alex Cross commits the sin of treating its adult audience like a group of toddlers who just awok...
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  The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  

  By SamFragoso, Clovis, IL

  The collective moments of loveliness in The Perks of Being a Wallflower are infinite. Not since Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous has a film explored the confounding depths of adolescence with as much whimsy, beauty, and heartache like author/filmmaker Stephen Chbosky’s tragic and hopeful sophomo...