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Adjustment Bureau

Typically in sci-fi, if even one detail is inconsistent within the invented universe, the film’s credibility falls to bits. Luckily, The Adjustment Bureau is driven more by romance than by...


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Sandbox

I am so sick of the word “hipster.” I’d argue that its current noun/adjective duality (“Look at that hipster!” vs. “That’s so hipster!”) only makes the word more reductive.


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Duke, Horizontal

To be perfectly honest, I’ve been procrastinating this column. Over the past few days, I’ve tried forcing myself to engage in a few minutes of earnest thinking about booty calls or Skype sex or...


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Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes

Lykke Li’s 2008 debut, Youth Novel, was a carefree exploration of young and vulnerable love, including lighthearted anthems such as “Dance, Dance, Dance” and “I’m Good, I’m Gone.”


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Unknown - Juame Collet-Serra

In the days before the release of the new Liam Neeson movie, Unknown, my thoughts were that it looked like a combination of a lot of spy movies I’d seen—namely, Taken and The Bourne Identity.


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Editor's Note

After a two-year upswing in the quality and tenor of summer reading, 2011 will mark a step backwards for Duke freshmen.