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Cinemarch Madness: Ku Division Poll
March 8, 2013 – 5:15 PM | 11 Comments
Cinemarch Madness: Ku Division Poll

The randomizer giveth, the randomizer taketh away. What it giveth here in the Ku division is two presumptive favorites, Breaking the Waves and Requiem for a Dream, plus a Gary Oldman joint and some embattled …

TN Read-Along #17: And I Don’t Want To Live This Life Discussion Thread
February 26, 2013 – 3:28 PM | 12 Comments
TN Read-Along #17: <I>And I Don’t Want To Live This Life</I> Discussion Thread

Alas, I can’t do a live chat after all; so sorry! Deadlines have intruded, as they tend to do.
I did finish And I Don’t Want To Live This Life, though, and I really felt for …

Dog Days of Summer Movies: A Summer in Genoa
August 9, 2011 – 11:18 AM | 5 Comments
Dog Days of Summer Movies: <I>A Summer in Genoa</I>

by Sarah D. Bunting
Playing a game in the car, 9-year-old Mary (Perla Haley-Jardine) covers her 16-year-old sister Kelly’s (Willa Holland) eyes. Then she covers her mother’s eyes for a minute, as a joke — but …

And Then There Were Three
March 1, 2011 – 9:17 PM | 90 Comments
And Then There Were Three

Mabel, formerly “Mei-Mei,” formerly “Betty,” arrived at my house July 4th weekend as a foster cat, tiny, bitter, and silent. At first, she hid on a bathroom shelf, and tried to impersonate a Scrubbing Bubble …

N Candy AA II: The Sweetmeat Eight
November 11, 2010 – 8:34 AM | 31 Comments
N Candy AA II: The Sweetmeat Eight

Updated bracket is here. Confused? Click here. Polls close 11:59 AM ET on Monday.
8 Sugar Daddy/Babies; Slo-Poke vs. 10 Nerds. Really? The highly dysfunctional Sugar family is still here? By the way, the original name …