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Will indie-rock reunions become just part of the plan?Music : For Our Consideration
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What made The Middle one of the best family comedies in yearsTV : TV Club 10
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Two Studio Ghibli gems, My Neighbor Totoro and Howl’s Moving Castle, get the dual-format treatmentDVD : HomeVideo Review
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The scariness of the survival game Don’t Starve comes on slowly but doesn’t let go
Games : The Gameological Society
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How does Chris Brown get away with it?
Music : Crosstalk
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Cannes 2013, Day Six: Michael Douglas plays Liberace in Steven Soderbergh’s swan song, Behind The Candelabra
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Michael Cera on the evolution of George Michael Bluth and working in Arrested Development’s writers’ room
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Thunder Road is one of the first, and finest, automotive action movies off the Hollywood lot
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An early Walkmen song gets anti-nostalgic
Music : Hear This
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The Breeders’ Last Splash is a rallying cry for the weirdos and stereotype-flouters
Music : Permanent Records
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New releases include an alternative detective story and a new collection examining the collective urban subconscious
Books : Comics Panel
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What do we mean when we call music pretentious?
Music : For Our Consideration
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Electro-dance duo Daft Punk travel back in time to find the future
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