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One sweltering night, in a neighborhood on the cusp of change, boy meets girl. If they'd only gone home together, they might still be alive. Loisaida -- A New York Story is a steamy elegy to the East Village at its pre-gentrification grittiest. An aspiring dancer is slain, allegedly by her psychotic lover. A dilettante actor turned journalist who thinks there's more to the story investigates.
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The Simulated Life Elapsed Experience Process aka The Death Trip — “comfort care for the dying” or something more nefarious? After the death of his beloved grandmother, Chuck decides to investigate. He soon finds himself torn between two women — the activist who suspects a dark agenda and the beautiful MD who helped create the process.
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Dec
20

Dexter — Season 7, Episode 1 — Can O’ Worms

Marion on December 20th, 2011

Warning: If you still haven’t seen the Dexter Season 6  finale, go hide someplace because spoilers are all over. What a disappointing mess, season 6 was.  They started off with a serial killer whose nickname was lifted from Thomas Harris novel, and if that wasn’t derivative enough, they moved from there to a plodding religiously-maniacal [...]

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Dec
5

Dexter: Richochet Rabbit — From Bad to Meh

Marion on December 5th, 2011

What a dismal season it’s been! First, a Fight Club/Sixth Sense motif that anyone who wasn’t high should have seen coming by the third episode. The sudden emergence of Travis as the sole big bad, able to persuade a fanatically religious couple to go forth and mass murder through the powers of the internets, was [...]

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Dec
1

Fake!

Marion on December 1st, 2011

“I object, your honor! This trial is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.” –  Fielding Melish, Bananas In an age when the “self” may have infinite online iterations and an “award winning” 16-year old novelist  can unapologetically admit [...]

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