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Bill Cotter's Parallel Apartments Are Full of Freaks Like You and Me
And the author presents a wine-fueled glimpse at BookPeople tomorrow.
"...Bill Cotter's new novel, The Parallel Apartments, should come with one of those Government Warning..."

Feb. 24, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Parallel Mothers
Almodóvar and Cruz's latest pairing unearths Spain's history
"...Penélope Cruz in a role as a pregnant character. (Parallel Mothers marks the fellow Spaniards’ seventh feature film together.)..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Parallel
Forget what you know about fast-food and takeout joints
"...Parallel..."

May 6, 2005 Food Review by Rachel Feit

City Theatre's Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show
Two great performances drive this production, but the feminist comedy feels stuck in the Eighties
"...If you're going to the feminist comedy Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show to learn something..."

June 7, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Parallel Universe
Ruben Ramos: El Gato Negro's
"...two hours to spin, there's an entirely different and parallel musical universe that not only encompasses East Austin and..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In: Matthew Logan Vasquez Lives In Parallel Universes
Delta Spirit frontman experiences ‘other 2020’ at home and virtually
"...now. This year has felt like living in two parallel universes simultaneously. As this year rolled on, I’d get..."

Oct. 27, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Bizarro Parallel Universe?
"...going too far? Have I slipped into a bizarro parallel universe where a presidential affair with an intern is..."

March 4, 2005 Postmarks

Parallel
Pandimensional crime spree sees the crooks turn on each other in lo-fi sci-fi

Dec. 11, 2020 Movie Review

Parallel Covers

Aug. 31, 2012 Postmarks

Life on the 38th Parallel
GAINing Ground

Jan. 12, 1996 News Feature

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Although Tsai Ming-Liang's I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone is nearly wordless and slow moving, the film’s characters are compelling and its pace hypnotic. (AFS@Dobie)
"...film’s crux, although their tales are told through two parallel storylines. In one, a character listed in the credits..."

July 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Tarantino takes Tinseltown head-on
"...is usual for a QT film, there are multiple parallel storylines at play, intersecting and ricocheting off each other..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beautiful Boy
Steve Carell soars above this overly-earnest addiction biography
"...autobiography of the same name, and his son Nic's parallel work Tweak, it's a well-executed paint-by-numbers story of a..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Lovers
Breaking the doldrums of marriage
"...who also wrote the script, creates exceptionally well done parallel plotlines, with the question being who will leave whom..."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gods of Egypt
We already have a strong contender for the worst film of 2016
"...characters. The film takes place in an ancient Egyptian parallel universe, an alternate world in which supreme beings and..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Boy and the Beast
Japanese anime film is a fully immersive experience
"...Karate Kid and part Japanese folklore. It posits a parallel Tokyo ruled by beasts and overseen by aging Lord..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

If I Stay
A mixture of hollow heartache and honest feelings mark this teen drama that stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a cello prodigy caught in medical limbo between life and death.
"...welcome warmth and humor whenever possible. By contrast, Mia’s parallel dilemmas of choosing between Juilliard or rocker-on-the-road Adam (Blackley)..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

The Nut Job
Everyone's a rat, more or less, in this animated film.
"...directs) for curveballing your basic talking-animal cartoon with a parallel plot about Fifties gangsters, but their goon patois makes..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Another Earth
Shaky science fiction shacks up with a corny redemption tale in this Sundance Film Festival double award-winner.
"...in a nonstop barrage of blather about Earth 2’s parallel universe that contains a double for every person on..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sarah's Key
Two parallel stories from different eras intertwine and inform each other in this film based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel.
"...Frot, Frédéric Pierrot, Aidan Quinn and Karina Hin. Two parallel stories from different eras intertwine and inform each other..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Leaves of Grass
Edward Norton plays dual roles as twin brothers from Oklahoma in this off-kilter mash-up of comedy and drama that co-stars Susan Sarandon and Richard Dreyfuss.
"...pat, but it's not. The script (by Nelson) mines parallel seams of black, Coen brothers-esque comedy and jolting, third-act..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vincere
The long-scuttled tragic story of Ida Dalser, the first wife of Benito Mussolini, and the child she bore him, is brought to the screen with arresting style by the Italian director Marco Bellocchio.
"...gradually and never didactically that we see Bellocchio’s devastating parallel between the rise of fascism and the bullying manner..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
This Swedish film is an icily sleek masterwork of sustained suspense, much like Noomi Rapace's visceral, envelope-pushing performance.
"...(Nyqvist) to investigate the seemingly impenetrable cold case. Running parallel to and finally weaving its way into Blomkvist's own..."

April 2, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

"Hubble 3D"
This breathtaking IMAX documentary follows NASA's May 2009 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
"...Hubble, necessitating what was effectively a 17,000-miles-per-hour job of parallel parking 350 miles above the Earth. That the mission..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fall
Astonishing and hyperstylized images mark Tarsem's stunning but mournful movie, which is also layered with fairy-tale subtext and thickets of moral and motivational ambiguity.
"...The Fall's most astonishing and hyperstylized images. The two parallel stories eventually flow into and then collide with each..."

May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nim's Island
This girls adventure story that stars Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler bears the reminder that we should all be the heroes of our own life stories.
"...of their own life stories. The film details the parallel adventures of Nim Rusoe (Breslin), a motherless girl who..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Under the Same Moon
The film's parallel stories of a mother and son seeking each other across geographical divides is never more than one small step away from mawkishness and cliché – but as a sociological study, it’s fascinating.
"...Same Moon isn’t anything to ring bells over. Its parallel stories of two lost souls seeking each other across..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Golden Compass
The special effects are mostly spectacular in this story of a 12-year-old orphan whose fate is connected to a holy, multiverse war yet to come.
"...delight), a 12-year-old orphan living in a steampunk universe parallel to Oxford, England, whose fate – which has something..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Jane Austen Book Club
Though it’s as estrogenic as dong quai, this amiable film about six friends and their book club is thoughtfully rendered with a certain universality of spirit.
"...washing his car. The heroines’ lives are supposed to parallel Austen’s plots, so fans can have fun connecting the..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Green Street Hooligans
The psychotically testosterized world of British football hooliganism, with its crimson tide of fist-in-mouth male bonding and lager-lout bad manners, is captured in this post LOTR Elijah Wood movie.
"...global – or any – scale, there’s no finer parallel than sport of this sort, and Hooligans, with its..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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