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Monthly Archive: March 2020

Stir-Crazy Showcase

            Getting stir-crazy in your apartments from self-isolation?              The NY Times theater critic suggested reading aloud plays at home if you are a theater buff. But if you are a movie lover like me, why not re-enact your favorite scenes from…
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Haggis-heart

Paramount Pictures’ planned a 25th anniversary big-screen return of the 1995 film Braveheart, but with theaters closing across the country it’s doubtful that is going to happen. Maybe that is the bright spot in all this crisis- at least you don’t…
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Swallow

            Opening at IFC Center on March 6th is a fabulously bizarre feminist horror fable by Carlo Mirabella-Davis with a remarkable and heartbreaking performance by Haley Bennett. Haley plays Hunter, the trophy wife of successful businessman Richie (Austin Stowell). They live…
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