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December 10 , 2024

Guido aficionado’s hopes crushed with Snooki’s booki

Hi, my name is Sarah and I’m addicted to “Jersey Shore.” (“Hi, Sarah.”) The guiltiest of pleasures available on television today (and that’s saying quite a bit), watching MTV’s ongoing chronicle o...

‘The Conspirator’ is engrossing and surprisingly timely

“The Conspirator,” the latest film from actor-director Robert Redford, is a parable for our times: The constitution is subverted after President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in order to try and convict the assassins.

A tide of pride

The third-annual Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade and Festival hit South Beach in a flurry of rainbows and fabulousness, and despite the oppressive heat and flash rain storms, it seemed that a fantastic time was had by all.

‘Miral’ not so controversial

Does Julian Schnabel’s “Miral” deserve all the controversy it’s courted since its American premiere a few months ago? Not really. The story of a Palestinian girl’s actions during the ongoing confl...

The Strokes strike again

In the five years since The Strokes released their last album, a lot has changed in the world. The Democrats won and lost control of Congress; the first biracial (and socialist, and fascist, an...

‘Hanna’ Review

I must admit that I had no idea what to expect from “Hanna.” Seeing as how director Joe Wright, of 2005’s “Pride and Prejudice” and 2007’s “Atonement,” is best known for literary adaptations of th...

All-star cast does ‘Jane Eyre’ justice

Since Charlotte Bronte’s seminal work “Jane Eyre” has been portrayed in what seems like a million adaptations since 1910, thinking that the most recent version by director Cary Fukunaga couldn’t b...

Laughable ‘Riding Hood’ taints the legend

I saw the best actors of my generation destroyed by madness. “Red Riding Hood,” director Catherine Hardwicke’s first film since introducing the world of cinema to the travesty that is “Twilight,” ...

Matisyahu’s new beats continue to prove his talent

“Live at Stubb’s Vol. II” is a return to form and a nostalgia-tinged throwback for Matisyahu, the world- famous (and sometimes infamous) Hasidic reggae artists. It seems like being an avi...

‘Unknown’ movie review

Liam Neeson’s new film, “Unknown,” takes that idea to new heights as the actor continues his late-career resurgence as the unlikeliest of action heroes – who would have ever thought that Oskar Schindler himself would be so good at kicking ass?

Sarah B. Pilchick

Senior EDGE Writer