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Film Critic. Projectionalist. “Snide gatekeeper.”
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Emily Blunt steals Spielberg's busy 'Disclosure Day'

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By Sean Burns 
| WBUR News
World War III simmers in the background of “Disclosure Day.” It’s with the North Koreans, I think. We’re told in passing that the U.S. has just ramped things up to DEFCON 2, but the threat of nuclear Armageddon is just more background noise in Steven Spielberg’s exceedingly busy new chase picture. There’s a lot going on in this movie: a ton of running and jumping and driving cars through living rooms and into trains and invisible fire trucks that crash into other cars.
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Apple TV's 'Cape Fear' is a 10-episode boondoggle

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By Sean Burns 
| WBUR News
In the great Los Angeles crime writer Jordan Harper’s aptly titled new novel, “A Violent Masterpiece,” there’s a funny little detour in which one of the protagonists has an awkward first date with a streaming television executive who brags that he doesn’t make shows, he makes “tiles.” The exec explains that “TV hasn’t been made to be watched for years” and that all their effort now goes into creating an alluring screen menu tile for people to click on — preferably featuring a recognizable...
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Classic Corner: Used Cars

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By Sean Burns 
| Crooked Marquee
It took 1994’s Forrest Gump to enshrine Robert Zemeckis as his generation’s official pop Herodotus, having crafted a literal idiot’s guide to post-WWII history as bloated, lachrymose and self-regarding as the baby boomers themselves. But Zemeckis has been on this beat since his earliest work.
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