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Ric’s Netflix Picks: “The Puffy Chair”

“All this Duplass ever wanted was his chair back. It really tied the room together.” Josh (Mark Duplass) has found the perfect birthday gift for his father. It’s a comfy, purple recliner; just like the one his father had when Josh was growing up. He orders it on eBay and takes his girlfriend, Emily (Katie…
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Be Mine: What to Watch this Valentine’s Day on Netflix

Is your Valentine’s Day 2014 looking more like Doomsday 2014? Did you wait ’til the last minute to make a reservation at her favorite restaurant to find there aren’t any left? Or did you completely forget about the preeminent day of love and now have no idea what to get him? Are you fearing the…
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Netflix is My Valentine: 10 Movies to Watch if You’re Single on V-Day

For some people, being single and loving it is pretty easy on 364 days of the year, but once mid-Feb rolls around and it starts raining rose petals and chocolates and everything is stained pink, purple, and red, you want to just sucker punch everything that moves. Romance. Psh! So what do you do? Turn…
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Ric’s Review: “The LEGO Movie”

LEGO: It’s something that we all grew up playing with. It’s so pervasive, even across cultural and generational lines, that, according to various sources, there are somewhere from 62 to 86 LEGO pieces for every person on Earth. XKCD even claims that by 2019 there will be more LEGO minifigs than people on Earth. Recently,…
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Ric’s Netflix Picks: “The Untouchables”

Welcome everybody to the wild, almost midwest. This here is our sheriff, Eliot Ness. In Prohibition Era Chicago everyone knows that Al Capone (Robert De Niro) is the bootlegging kingpin. The problem is that no one can prove it. Every time the police try to bring him down, Capone manages to get tipped off by…
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JK Rowling Regrets Coupling Ron And Hermione

So. This happened. I have surprisingly strong feelings on the matter. Like so many members of my generation, Harry Potter is a series very, very close to my heart. After my mother read me the first chapter, I knew these books were special. I grabbed the Sorcerer’s Stone from her hands and I devoured the book, and all its…
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Ric’s Netflix Picks: “Red State”

Guess what I have under this sheet? Hate and insanity for everyone!!! Three midwestern teenagers, Travis (Michael Angarano) and his two friends, answer an online ad for a woman willing to have group sex with them. Their plans go awry, and the boys find themselves kidnapped. One of the teens quickly recognizes his captors. They…
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Ric’s Netflix Picks: “The Boondock Saints”

YOOOOOOOU!!! …will watch this movie! While attending mass, Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy MacManus (Norman Reedus), a pair of Irish-American brothers, hear the story of a woman who was killed while her neighbors did nothing. Later, while celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at their local bar, they discover that the bar will be closing due…
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“American Hustle” Review

American Hustle is a film built on cons: the idea that people are cons, often con themselves, and con others. That’s pretty much the basis of the whole movie. Each character? A con. How these people survive and compete within the same world is what makes this movie great, because they all do it by…
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Ric’s Netflix Picks: “Sexy Evil Genius”

We all have one crazy ex. She was theirs. Three strangers find themselves having drinks together at a bar, at the behest of their mutual ex-girlfriend, Nikki (Katee Sackhoff). They quickly take up discussing the only topic they have in common and discover that they each know drastically different sides of her. Zachary (Seth Green),…
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