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Aug. 22, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch
Morbid Curiosity: A Card Game About Death
Shedding the stigma of the inevitable
"...she managed the next best thing by creating Morbid Curiosity – a card game about death. She said, "This..."
May 12, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival
The lineup for the sophomore laugh jam will make your jaw drop
"...yonder last August 23 when the Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival made its debut before a full house at..."
June 26, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza
A Matter of Curiosity
Aug. 8, 2018 Postmarks
A Curiosity, Tough to Crack
The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Don Bernier's 'In a Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian'
June 9, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
Aggies Amped for Entry, Descent, and Landing in the SEC
A&M preps for SEC like Curiosity was prepped for Mars
"...Early on August 6, NASA's Curiosity approached Martian soil after eight months of travel. Curiosity..."
Aug. 28, 2012 Sports Post by Emily Bevan
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Nickelodeon’s animated star gets a charming live-action revamp
"...the way it embraces values like kindness, resilience, and curiosity, and nudges young viewers to consider a more sophisticated..."
Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
God Knows Where I Am
"...mercy killing. God Knows Where I Am probes with curiosity and concern, but it results in very little fresh..."
April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
10 Cloverfield Lane
Unrelated Cloverfield follow-up is a dandy suspenser
"...enigma that announced 10 Cloverfield Lane’s upcoming release, my curiosity was piqued – and then some. J.J. Abrams’ company..."
March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
As Above/So Below
There are things in the catacombs beneath Paris that should remain underground.
"...Motivated by a combination of scholarly curiosity, lingering grief, and basic survival, Scarlett leads the charge..."
Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss
The Signal
A trio of tech-savvy twentysomethings get waylaid and wind up as subjects in a weird but stylish sci-fi mystery.
"...the echoes of bolder films ultimately overpower whatever initial curiosity this one had up its sleeve. The result is..."
June 13, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
The genius dog and his adopted human son return for these animated adventures in time travel.
"...of the thing – the way it champions intellectual curiosity and critical thinking – warmed this nerd’s heart tremendously...."
March 7, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Sugar
Sugar, by the makers of Half Nelson, follows a major league hopeful's path from a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic to stateside spring training and single-A ball in rural Iowa.
"...put away that song for good). Sugar is a curiosity – too somber for a picaresque, too arm's-length for..."
May 8, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Goodbye Solo
This small marvel of a film by American portraitist Ramin Bahrani is a large-hearted examination of human curiosity and kindness and the limits of both.
"...no wrong beats in this largehearted examination of human curiosity and kindness and the limits of both when it..."
May 8, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Miss March
Two-fifths of the Whitest Kids U'Know comedy troupe wrote, star in, and co-directed this nubile sex romp about a road trip to the Playboy mansion.
"...repression flowering into sexual promiscuity, guilt twisting itself into curiosity, an id and a superego trapped in a car..."
March 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
What Would Jesus Buy?
The good Reverend Billy is on an agitprop mission to convince his fellow Americans that our heedless consumerism will be their spiritual undoing.
"...its director’s almost total lack of intellectual and psychological curiosity. Where does true religion end and show business begin?..."
Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
King Corn
The film’s light hand, appealing style, and simple exposition make it an eminently watchable inquiry into the politics of food, public health, and the reasons why corn has become an ingredient in virtually everything we eat.
"...but largely the film is defined by a playful curiosity. Ellis and Cheney discover the "farm program," which pays..."
Nov. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Paprika
The multilayered Paprika, the newest animated film from Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers) captures the childlike, helter-skelter chaos and curiosity of the human mind better than any other animated film.
"...kids, manages to capture the childlike, helter-skelter chaos and curiosity of the human mind better than any other animated..."
July 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Civic Duty
The line separating civic duty from vigilantism is the focus of this paranoid thriller set squarely in the new age of terrorism.
"...man (Naga) with few possessions moves in downstairs, Terry's curiosity is aroused, and he begins to follow the man..."
May 4, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Edmond
William H. Macy stars in this film penned by David Mamet about one man's long night's journey of the soul.
"...can’t rise above the level of being a necessary curiosity for fans of Macy and David Mamet, who wrote..."
Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Protocols of Zion
Documentary filmmaker Marc Levin investigates the reasons for the recent renaissance of American anti-Semitism; sadly, the end result is scattershot and never really elucidates or poses solutions to the problem.
"...reasons for the recent renaissance of American anti-Semitism. His curiosity begins with a comment made to him by a..."
Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
All That I Need
Movies this bad don’t often get released anymore, a circumstance that instantly raises the curiosity factor of All That I Need.
"...get released anymore, a circumstance that instantly raises the curiosity factor of All That I Need. Although the film’s..."
Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Greendale
Musician Neil Young imagines a whole town and its people in a Super-8 movie that serves as a companion piece to his CD and touring show.
"...a live concert setting but feels more like a curiosity on the big screen. Young produced, directed, shot, and..."
Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Sylvia
Sylvia Plath biopic is sad dirge.
"...few months before his own death. The public’s festering curiosity of the last 40 years, however, is not about..."
Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Whole
This documentary explores the hidden world of amputee fetishism.
"...all too human. Gilbert approaches her interviews with genuine curiosity and shows how these limb-loathers are "normal" and "sane"..."
Oct. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Orfeu
"...in all, though, this Brazilian import is a small curiosity, intriguing more for its failures than its accomplishments...."
Dec. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Hi-Line
"...a story that reveals itself slowly, letting atmosphere and curiosity lead our way into the narrative. At first, we're..."
June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Twenty Dates
"...about the remaining four dates? 20 Dates is a curiosity. Berkowitz purports to be enlightening us about the problematic..."
March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
My Favorite Martian
"...matter time. This Disneyfied update of the old CBS curiosity, which ran from 1963 to 1966, isn't as embarrassingly..."
Feb. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
"...driving forces behind Dick's courageous, defiantly candid film are curiosity about all things human and a desire to explain..."
