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As compared to other high school reunion comedies, Veronica Mars lacks the self-satire or personal introspection that would enable it to function as a true interaction with the series’ past. It’s a TV movie rather than a movie, feeling more like an extended episode than an actual cinematic continuation.

Movies about Sales, the best sales movies, specifically The Top 10 Movies About Salesmen. Hopefully you have already read the ABCs OF SALES, but what about movies about these universally loathed hucksters? Along with Lawyers and Politicians, Salesmen bring up the rear as the least admired profession, and for good reason. Here are a few…

Miyazaki’s most mature and introspective film. It’s not a film for every child, but it’s the film to show if you want your kids to dream of being engineers instead of princesses. Kaze Tachinu is to Miyazaki’s career as Ran is to Kurosawa’s- an autumnal, meditative reprise of the director’s major philosophical themes, one that…

  2014 Academy Awards- Devon’s Bets Category: Best Picture Nominees: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyer’s Club; Gravity; Her; Nebraska; Philomena; 12 Years a Slave; The Wolf of Wall Street Devon’s Pick: 12 Years A Slave, because it’s the subject matter that the Academy goes for (see: Lincoln, Crash). Her, though brilliant, is too cruel,…