Film: I Learned It At The Movies: How to take a vacation
Vacation: It’s another word for fun that can turn into disaster at any moment. It’s thrilling to explore another part of the world, but thrills and discomfort often go hand-in-hand. Fortunately,...
View ArticleFilm: I Learned It At The Movies: How to break up
As pop music tells us, breaking up is hard to do. But while music can capture the emotions of a shattered relationship, it rarely provides an instruction manual, either for instigating a breakup or...
View ArticleFilm: I Learned It At The Movies: How to celebrate the holidays
At the end of the year, the airwaves and theaters are flooded with films that give us all a picture of what the holiday season is supposed to look like, with sentiment, uplift, and happy moral...
View ArticleFilm: I Learned It At The Movies: How to use a mall
As The A.V. Club’s Mall Week draws to a close, we stopped to look back on all the uses that pop culture has for malls as symbols of consumerism run amok, a staging ground for big fight sequences, and...
View ArticleFilm: I Learned It At The Movies: Want to get elected? The movies have some...
Election season has become its own segment of the entertainment landscape, with politically minded spectators (or “voters”) following and reacting to polls, debates, and media coverage with a fervor...
View ArticleFilm: I Learned It At The Movies: Want to do spring break properly? These...
March has arrived, and with it, the migration of the nation’s college students to warm coastal destinations for the weeklong bacchanal known as spring break. That’s an awfully cerebral description of...
View ArticleI Learned It At The Movies: How to take a vacation
Vacation: It’s another word for fun that can turn into disaster at any moment. It’s thrilling to explore another part of the world, but thrills and discomfort often go hand-in-hand. Fortunately,...
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I Learned It At The Movies: How to break up
As pop music tells us, breaking up is hard to do. But while music can capture the emotions of a shattered relationship, it rarely provides an instruction manual, either for instigating a breakup or...
View ArticleI Learned It At The Movies: How to celebrate the holidays
At the end of the year, the airwaves and theaters are flooded with films that give us all a picture of what the holiday season is supposed to look like, with sentiment, uplift, and happy moral...
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I Learned It At The Movies: How to use a mall
As The A.V. Club’s Mall Week draws to a close, we stopped to look back on all the uses that pop culture has for malls as symbols of consumerism run amok, a staging ground for big fight sequences, and...
View ArticleI Learned It At The Movies: Want to get elected? The movies have some great tips
Election season has become its own segment of the entertainment landscape, with politically minded spectators (or “voters”) following and reacting to polls, debates, and media coverage with a fervor...
View ArticleI Learned It At The Movies: Want to do spring break properly? These movies...
March has arrived, and with it, the migration of the nation’s college students to warm coastal destinations for the weeklong bacchanal known as spring break. That’s an awfully cerebral description of...
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I Learned It At The Movies: G-g-g-ghosts? Movies that taught us about those...
Ghosts have long been fixtures in the entertainment world. Houdini’s counterparts tried to call on them in séances, and modern day TV bros try to hunt them down in old houses and hospitals. Ghosts have...
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