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  Game of Thrones Power Rankings Episode 3:06 – The Climb Last week’s rankings   As Cersei famously said back in the first season, “In the game of thrones, you win or you die.” With that spirit in mind, here’s your weekly look at who’s winning and who got served.   Winning!   1....
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  Game of Thrones Power Rankings Episode 3:05 – Kissed By Fire Last week’s rankings As Cersei famously said back in the first season, “In the game of thrones, you win or you die.” With that spirit in mind, here’s your weekly look at who’s winning and who got served.   Winning!   1....
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  Episode 3:04 – And Now His Watch Is Ended   As Cersei famously said back in the first season, “In the game of thrones, you win or you die.” With that spirit in mind, here’s your weekly look at who’s winning and who got served.   Winning!   1. Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen In...
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“Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.” -Roger Ebert, 2002 I first read those words in early 2006, during a particularly cold winter and a particularly cold time in my life. I had just graduated from college after a long series...
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  Here we go folks, it’s Oscar time! There are 24 statues up for grabs, and since most of you probably only care about five of them, allow me to suggest how to place your bets for the other nineteen. As always, the goal is to go 20 for 24, and one of these...
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Start your engines, it’s awards season time! The nominations for the Golden Globes, the Screen Actor’s Guild, and all of the other guilds have already been released, the Golden Globes are this Sunday, and the Oscar nominations come out tomorrow. What will they be? I’m so glad you asked… In each category below, everything...
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The latter half of Tiff gets a bit sparser in terms of high profile stuff and major premieres, so this is where its fun to try and exit your comfort zone and start seeing stuff that just kind of interests you and might not otherwise be on your radar. Unfortunately today wasn’t the greatest...
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With 5 days down and 5 days to go after this one, it’s hump day at Tiff, so how appropriate that all of the films on my schedule star women. Most of the major premieres have happened at this point, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still a lot of good stuff to see....
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Okay, time to try speed-blogging. I saw four films today: one was very good, one wasn’t very good, I fell asleep in one, and one was one of the most powerful films I’ve ever seen. Let’s do this.   Thanks For Sharing When tackling the subject of sex addiction, it seems like there are...
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It happened. Every ounce of luck/karma/goodwill I used up yesterday in getting tickets to five major premieres came back to haunt me. This morning, I went to the box office at 7:00am armed with a list of 4 first choices, 4 second choices, and 4 third choices, figuring that one way or another, I...
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