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The Social Network

Marylin Delpy: The site got 2200 hits with­in 2 hours? Mark Zucker­berg: Thou­sand. Marylin Delpy: I’m sor­ry? Mark Zucker­berg: Twen­­ty-two thou­sand. Mark Zucker­berg is no techno­phobe. He’s not just some 26 year-old kid out of Har­vard. He’s the world youngest bil­lion­aire and he’s the man respon­si­ble for the famous social net­work site, Facebook.com. David Fincher’s film presents Zucker­berg as one-half of the minds behind the cre­ation of… 

Shutter Island

We meet Ted­dy Daniels (Leonar­do DiCaprio) and his part­ner, Chuck (Mark Ruf­fa­lo), in the very open­ing moments of Mar­tin Scorsese’s “Shut­ter Island”. They are two fed­er­al mar­shals from Boston assigned to a miss­ing per­sons case. But this is not a rou­tine inves­ti­ga­tion. This one involves a men­tal asy­lum and a dan­ger­ous patient who we’re told mys­te­ri­ous­ly van­ished from her room overnight. Dr. Caw­ley (Ben Kingsley),… 

Star Trek

It’s extreme­ly orig­i­nal. I’m not refer­ring to the plot or the direc­tion or the won­drous spe­­cial-effects or the cast.  I’m refer­ring to the notion of rein­ven­tion or re-mythol­o­­giz­ing of a clas­sic series sacred to so many. It’s a bold move. Things hap­pen in this “Star Trek” pre­quel that are new and sur­pris­ing. You can’t study for this “Star Trek” and know what to expect. You… 

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Robert Lang­don is no stranger when it comes to mys­ter­ies involv­ing the Catholic Church, codes, and sym­bols. Here we find the Har­vard sym­bol­o­gist on a dar­ing mis­sion in Vat­i­can City. He has but a few hours to dis­cov­er the loca­tion of a tick­ing bomb. The bomb, we’re told, is made from a sub­stance called “anti-mat­ter.” What is anti-mat­ter exact­ly? Vit­to­ria explains that a tiny substance…