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Finding her voice
Greenland’s Skylar Burke stands up to bullies with her new short film, “Frenemy”
By Larry Clow, photos by Alyssa Grenning
It’s a Friday morning at Portsmouth...
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“Way Out West”
Hal Roach Studios/MGM, 1937
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Rosina Lawrence, Sharon Lynne
Director: James W. Horne
The plot: Stan and Ollie have...
Selma
It’s been 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr. led some 8,000 people on a march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. At the end...
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Winter Game Roundup
The wind threatens your breath and sanity as your bitter tears harden on your face. Your skin is cracked and brittle....
The Theory of Everything
The image of Stephen Hawking slouched in his motorized wheelchair has become so iconic that few people realize he once walked, spoke, laughed, and...
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The best (and worst) classic flicks and cult favorites
“Blood Feast”
Box Office Spectaculars, 1963
Starring: Mal Arnold, William Kerwin, and Connie Mason
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
The plot:...
Jupiter Ascending
2015, Rated PG, 127 minutes
"Jupiter Ascending” poses one unique challenge: nearly any description of this flick invariably makes it sound way better than it...
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Rediscovering video games of the past
“The Battle of Olympus”
(Brøderbund, 1989)
When “The Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link” was released in December 1988,...
Outside the gates
Neil Novello explores the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard prison in “The Castle”
by Larry Clow
It’s been more than a century since the prison at the...
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"Get Carter"
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1971
Starring: Michael Caine, John Osborne, Ian Hendry, and Britt Ekland
Director: Mike Hodges
The plot: When Jack Carter’s (Caine) brother dies in a car...
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