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Who Is Beloved?
22 Oct 1998 | No Comment

“Not a house in the country ain’t packed to its rafters with some dead Negro’s grief,” Sethe’s mother-in-law says in Toni Morrison’s book, Beloved. “We lucky this ghost is a baby.” (Movie review from 1998)

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Which Lolita Suits You?
9 Oct 1998 | No Comment

Which version of Lolita should you see? Both movies stayed amazingly faithful to Nabokov’s book, but somehow the three are different enough that you could take a tour of late 20th century anxieties with them. (movie review from 1998)

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Keep the Jumpsuit, Skip the Avengers
31 Aug 1998 | No Comment

I’m going to say something some fans of the original Avengers will find shocking: The Avengers series wasn’t about a black leather jumpsuit. (Movie review from 1998)

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X-Philia on Parade
22 Jun 1998 | No Comment

The X-Files Movie is a good action movie with clever heroes, male and female, who use their brains more than their guns. But for the real goods, turn the tube to FOX on Sunday nights. (movie review from 1998)